You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.

The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.

The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.

To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.

Technique is of less interest than character and story.

Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.

The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.