I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

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.

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

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

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

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.