Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

There’s always been this hocus-pocus or magical, mystical thing associated with the making of film that sort of psyches people out and makes them think that this cannot be done; that this is a craft that cannot be learned.

I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all.

Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace.

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.