I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

My dad took me to my first movie.

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.