"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't.

People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.

I think often people fall into the breadth trap of wanting to do too long a period of time, and obviously there's this sort of algorithm of how much depth you can put into something times how much of their life you're trying to show. My attitude has always been, I'd rather show a briefer period of time in more detail than a longer period of time in less detail.