One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone's feathers people in the movie business are today.

I think Pans Labyrinth is genius.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.