Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood.

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.

We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment of fear makes our spirit so vulnerable that it allows us to believe in something beyond that.

My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."

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.

There is beautiful in the grotesque.