I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others

I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do.

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

You have to believe the magic to see it.

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.

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until the battle call they are but normal men who long for action, who lust for the opportunity to throw off the routine of their normal lives like a cocoon and come into their own. They sense a destiny larger than themselves, but only when structures collapse around them do these men become warriors.