The smallest detail can contribute to the whole, I think particularly with emotion, you want it to be as authentic as it can, whether its a artifact or a theatrical event. But the whole is the sum of so many images.

I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.

I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.