I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

I always liked strange characters.

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?

I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull out of it. But I don't consider myself negative-negative. I'm positive-negative.

I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.

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

I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.