Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it becau….

If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like st….

I can feel my dreams but I can't remember them..

[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood ….

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story t….

Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautif….

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same..

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly..

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world..

I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity..

Gorillaz virtually changed my wife...sorry, I mean, life...no, actually, it was my wife..

Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don't have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what's the point of carrying on? And….

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know..

Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people..

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work..

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre..

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly the….

Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience..

What I want to do is make films that astonish people, that astound people, and I hope you want to do that too. It's easy to make money. It's easy to ….

A lot of people seem to get carried away that something that's made out of paper mâché is going to be better than not. And I always thought the origi….

I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as ….