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.

Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.

The best thing you can do with actors is collaborate with them. My job is to inspire them to give their best. And they're only inspired if they feel they are part of the creative process, otherwise they'll shut down. So my goal is always to ask people what they would like to do before I even say my opinion. I usually don't know anything until I see it. I'm a fetish filmmaker - I make films based on what I want to see.

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.

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

I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.

If the Wizard of Oz were real he would be in Hollywood.