Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.

When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources.