When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

Directing is much more psychological-it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between two and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

Americans are attracted to the dark side. But which movies should be allowed to be violent and show that dark side, and which should not? I don't believe in censorship, but I do think there are horrible movies that are bad for you.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.