I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.