I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality.

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.

So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.