I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.

I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara,Coppola, Neil Jordan.

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

I've grown up watching a lot of Western genre films on TV, and America is not just a country, but it's one of the most important countries in the world, and examining the process of how this nation came to be, it's an important thing, even for outsiders.

I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.