For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

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.

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.

I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.

I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.

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.

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.