I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.

I don't look at scripts. I just write them.

I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They're going to be personal and they're going to take a lot of my energy. I'm not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn't interest me.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?