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

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.

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.

I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.

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

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.