I don't thrive on control. I'm not looking for control. I think I get better results when I don't control things.

Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.

When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.

If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer.

You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.

Objectivity is very hard to achieve. It needs some research and patience. If you want to do something honest, you have to explore it a little longer.

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.