People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.

I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.

People think you're like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you're hustling, you're desperate, you're panicked and you're horrified. The movie you think you're going to do next, you don't do. The movie you think you're never going to do, you make.

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.

At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.