Every weekend in history has worked for movies if the movie connects.

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.

You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

Living in a world such as this is like dancing on a live volcano.

The principle virtue of anyone who made an important invention is curious persistence.

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can't see.

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical.

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.