All my movies are achingly personal.

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.

One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' - not the abolitionist John Brown, but the one that Bob Dylan has covered and sung before. It's about a boy coming home from the Civil War, or maybe World War I even, and about his Mother seeing him all destroyed.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.