Successful films are very dangerous things..

I'm always a fan of a good horror film..

So many teen films are overproduced and people are going to burnout on the subject..

When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually..

It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made..

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular..

I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life..

I can't watch my movies and get into them because as soon as I see myself I get taken out of the film..

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film..

Everybody else is going to react differently to the film [Aquarius], but what I love about it is that both men and women are going to react to it bec….

Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films..

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch..

Anybody I'd spoken to who'd been in Siberia said 'would you please put mosquitos in your film,' that's what everybody knows about, they're big and th….

That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage..

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really conc….

Like most filmmakers and writers, there are roots in my own life, but they are stories that I invent. There was a period of time in my life when I ma….

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn….

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'.

The most difficult thing is that I don't speak Mandarin and I had this experience - of working in a language that I don't understand - before and it'….

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before..

I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest..