I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.

Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.