Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

Some people like when it rains a lot. Some people like sunshine. The idea that there's one, all encompassing afterlife is strange. It doesn't seem to make sense because we're all such different people.

In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.

The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.