The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

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

Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others

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.

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

There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style.