There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.

...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.

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.

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

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

When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.