"I found the world completely and totally fantastic as a child. Of course, I had the usual fears, like going to school…"

"A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should …"

"The beginning dictates the direction and you never know where you're going to go ... the mood is what you're looking …"

"Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful enough…"

"When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home ... and I mostly…"

"All the movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so …"

"I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead."

"When you're an artist, you pick up on certain things that are in the air. You just feel it. It's not like you're sitt…"

"In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in small…"

"I'm not a political person. ... I don't understand politics, I don't understand the concept of two sides and I think …"