I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth.

I just predicted whose son will be taken in Storm of Century By Stephen King it was Ralph Emerick 'Ralphie' Anderson. Isn't it interesting that I gues who will be taken??

Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.

Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.

And the time will come when you see, we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.

The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say.

What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.

I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.

You both should feel honored.” “Right, very honored,” I said. “Always wanted to be possessed!

That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.