You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

Could you double-check the envelope?

Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

Movies touch our hearts, and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places. They open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our lifetime. We need to keep them alive.