I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.

They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it.

I'm a cartoonist, it's what I am at heart, so cartoons take reality and deform it and make it grotesque, you make it funny, but you alter it. If it works, it's based on reality. That's what I try to do.

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

Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.

Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people.