A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

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.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.