If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you and starvation but a bit of barley and a pig, you'd be better off turning the barley into beer and letting the pig starve.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place.

I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my process. It's really demented, but it actually works. When you are aiming really high and doing something new, you must be also prepared to fail, learn from your mistakes and begin with a new plan. More motivated than before.

All my films are love stories.

If you want to move through a virtual reality it’s called a video game, it’s been around forever.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.