Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.