Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable thirst to keep making the thing. The artist has to voluntarily use themselves endlessly.

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it.