Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

('Eraserhead') may seem like a dark film, but my father and I watch it, and all we do is laugh. It was Disneyland everyday on the set. That's when I fell in love with film.

I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

When you love something, it never goes away.

I want to investigate what scares me and worries me.