If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.

Doing your first film, it's very important that it's a commercial success, because that gives you a couple times to experiment until you have to hit the jackpot again.

I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can massage it. But if I don't have anything to work with, then there's nothing.

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

I can't make a film that I don't feel comfortable with.