video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It's never been easy.

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.

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.

America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.