My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.

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

I've never really been on a date, because I've been with the same girl since my early twenties, but on our first date, I showed her The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I was like, "Hey, you've got to see this!" And we've been together ever since.

I very much enjoy my freedom creatively but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs a lot of money and has a lot of people running around with cell phones and all that insanity.

I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best. Like manipulation.

You know the one I want to do? I want to make Batgirl.

Where war destroys, art inspires. And in order to inspire, you need to penetrate the brain. In order to penetrate the brain, you need something to react to. To have something to react to, you need to get your emotions up and running. To get your emotions up and running, you need to have something that ... whatever direction you go in, it has to be a movement between you and the experience.