I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out.

It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.

People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them.

I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.