I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.

What bothers me is that the cinema - what Fox News calls the "wholesome cinema that our children are supposed to be able to see" - is so violent. I'm not even talking about the content. I'm talking about the way in which it's cut.

If I'd been asked to play an Asian man [in Doctor Strange] I would've shown them Benedict Wong.

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable and maybe uncomfortable and complicated. Just complicated and human, no more and no less.