You dream that you want to be a monster maker when you grow up, and that's what happened. I refused to take no for an answer. I just was a very driven kid, who's now a very driven semi-adult.

Every project has its own challenges and rewards. If it's not challenging, why do it?

Period movies are just always a wonderful thing to work on.

It was the most amazing opportunity to work on a period movie and transform Anthony Hopkins into Hitchcock.

There's always challenges to everything.

I just wanted to do hair in the movies and in Hollywood, and made it work.

Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.

As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.

I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

I had to pretend to drown. I was underwater, which is scary, and I'm not afraid of water, but people do die underwater.

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.