Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.

I hate losing laughs; they're rare things.

What I want to do is make films that astonish people, that astound people, and I hope you want to do that too. It's easy to make money. It's easy to make films like everybody else. But to make films that explode like grenades in people's heads and leave shrapnel for the rest of their lives is a very important thing. That's what the great filmmakers did for me. I've got images from Fellini, from Bergman, from Kurowsawa, from Bunuel, all stuck in my brain.

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

I can feel my dreams but I can't remember them.

Gorillaz virtually changed my wife...sorry, I mean, life...no, actually, it was my wife.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.