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

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

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

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.

BeautyIs the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic.If, after severalApplications, you do not findRelief, consult your family physician

The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.

Time for the world to end.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.

Urgh — essence of Millicent Bulstrode.

I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.