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.

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.

If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.

I find Hollywood gives these pat stories, and they're reassuring stories, and I don't really want to give people that. Hollywood does all that work. I'm offering, sometimes, an alternative to that. The answers aren't black-and-white. There may not even be answers in certain instances. The ground is not necessarily solid, either. So you've got to keep awake the whole time, even after the movie is over.

I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

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