We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.

Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly.

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.