I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

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

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.

You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.

I'm the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I'd like to be there.