Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

I want brave people. Fearless ones. A good actor just goes out and leaps off the edge and develops wings on his way down, hopefully. That's the kind of people I really enjoy working with. Playing safe isn't much fun. I like danger. It's controlled danger, always, and that's why I hope I don't lure too many good actors down into the pits with me, because I hope they maintain their own unique talents.

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

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

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

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

The forces that run the world always try to keep things under control. The population might be having a wonderful time, buying iPods and going to nice restaurants, but I still feel they're all kind of under control.