And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's real.

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.