Leadership is more doing than dash..

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films..

To be is to stand for..

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience..

Things that don't exist do exist. They're just really fast..

I've always put myself intensely into my work..

Fear is the biggest motivator..

Film is a battleground..

If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them..

There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence..

I take every film as it comes..

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child..

I've always been interested in making movies..

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job..

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally..

He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too.

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable..

There is nothing inherently wrong about science..

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee..

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make mone….

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady..