I'm just thinking of 2001, which I think is the most expensive independent film ever made - which is great, someday I hope I will do one. But I know the parameters when I got onto this project - I have to take care of everyone, make sure that they are all on board, and this process interests me.

There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.

I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.

I don't like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see 'I Am Legend' with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you've seen many times.

It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.

It's a very American thing that everything has to be a business. Americans think... I like America, or I would not be here. There are great qualities to this country. But this sense that everything has to be a business is sometimes overwhelming.

I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.