Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

I don't even like football.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.