I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.