If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

I was rather shaken by all the green trees. I always am. It gets me. I don't want to be funny about it but I am. I loved seeing all the westerns, but I had asthma and couldn't go anywhere, but I loved watching them in Technicolor and seeing the cowboys and the landscapes of Monument Valley and you'd see the forests of the Anthony Mann films and think, 'wow, that's fantastic', but I could never go there!

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.

I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.