You just have to have the right gear and a few people to put you in motion with a good aesthetic and the film will take care of itself.

Even if you enjoy the activity of exploring caves, to be trapped and not know whether you're going to get out alive is terrifying.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

I just have so many scripts to read!

With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.

Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.

When your daughter asks you to be a fairy for her 5th birthday party... you better be a damned fairy.

That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded.