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.

The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

Every movie you're going to forget that it's 3D whether it's widescreen or whatever it is, you're going to forget everything if the movie is working. If the movie doesn't work or if the movie generically doesn't work then immediately you start to pick apart whatever has contributed to that.

The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.

Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.