I want to make a movie that has enough impact that it's going to do what it needs to do. But I don't want to make a film that serial killers masturbate to.

I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."

If I see a movie for the first time on DVD, I watch it all the way through, the lights are down, I don't pick up the phone. The third or fourth time you see a movie, sometimes you just have them on and you check in every once in a while with things that you liked. I think it's a different expectations from that environment.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.