There are films that I've made that I like a little bit more than the others. But the films that I mostly watch, and see over and over again, are not my own.

Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.

I'm not a fan of Star Wars. That is not for me. That is for my nephews and nieces. I don't get it.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.

Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.

To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.

Violence is not funny.

And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

Once your health is taken away, you have nothing.

Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

On any one day you can massively change the direction of your life.

I'm very comfortable with the fact that there's only one person in charge of the Trump administration. It's President Donald Trump.

It's amazing how the same pace in practice can feel so much harder than on race day. Stay confident. Trust the process.

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.