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

I try not to get too cute for cute's sake.

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.

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.

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the handmade quality to good horror films. Its a genre that benefits from not having everything at your disposal.

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.