Half the fun is plan to plan

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references".

Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

No matter what you go through with the business side or the Hollywood side at the end of it all, when you are there on the set, it is your thing. So it is your own private world and that's great. That's where you have that bubble to create something in.

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.