I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they're not all perfect. They're kind of misfits but not in a picturesque, hip way, they're really, really kids that are not entirely great.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

I don't try to define the cosmos, I know it's unknowable, but I can understand my place in the world and my place in the universe through a mixture of Taoism, Catholicism, Zen or whatever I have at hand.

I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.

I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.

I have my library separate from the family home, and every room is a different genre. The only room that I can guarantee I've read everything is the horror room.

The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.