Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

I don't know if power seduces less or more. I think power is a constant evolving mechanism that, since the dawn of time, on one level corrupts and on another level does not. But I think, no matter what, mutates.

I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.

Nowadays, teenagers are so fast and quick to see through any form of manipulation. Sitting down and just thinking of something is like watching really bad pornography.

I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.

In a way "Drive" is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.