You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: "Wow, well wait a second!" Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.

I saw Alien when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.