You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

I'm the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I'd like to be there.

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

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.

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