When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s..

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel..

For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes..

To me, the most interesting approach to film noir is subjective. The genre is really all about not knowing what's going on around you, and that fear ….

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right..

Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal st….

I feel like each time I do something I want it to be more and more recognizable that it's me so, by the time I do a film, my films will be as recogni….

I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break into film, obviously - then I'd write one myself..

Probably though, by the time I was 17, I already knew that I was probably going to go into film.

I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I wa….

I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles..

I never really feel like I'm sure a film's gonna happen until I'm maybe halfway through..

I've done all the other kind of production work on films than directing really badly. That is the truth. It's made me a better director because I fee….

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films..

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure ano….

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on..

It's very easy to get caught up in - there's a hype going on now that I haven't seen in years, and it's actually more about press than it is about an….

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. It's not like, "I don't make studio films; I work for David Lynch and m….

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you..

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie..

I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it..