After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything's still here. I'm OK!" We like to tease ourselves. Human beings have a need to get close to the edge, and when filmmakers or writers can take them to the edge, it feels like a dream where you're falling, but you wake up just before you hit the ground.

All of my movies are about how I wish the world would work. I've made very few movies about how the world worked. I could name them on one and a half hands, about how my movies have been very reflective of how the world was exactly. A lot of my movies are really about the way I wish the world was, and that's what this whole art form is all about. It's an interpretive art form.

Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

I think all directors should be animators.

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.