I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans.

I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.

I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.