When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

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.

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it's a banquet. You don't want to have the same food you have at home. You want to go and eat a fantastic Chinese meal or Italian or Greek.

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.