I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.

How can creativity be bad? You can have, "I liked it" or "I didn't like it," but, in the end, it's an individual experience. How can you even begin to define that? I find that sometimes extremely arrogant and counter-productive.

But once you get down to reality, there's no one to play her and there's no movie. It would be ridiculous.

I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see.

I've been lucky to have a beautiful wife and children. The idea that something so beautiful can be so horrific at the same time. Beauty is a complex thing.