The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types.

In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.

We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.