I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

Life and career kind of catches up with you.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.

Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.

I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.

I played lots of games and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games.

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.

I'm a cruel man to myself.

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.

I think women can save civilization.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.

An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

Our own life has to be our message.

I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.