If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I’ve left behind me.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.