I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

When you make the audience the critic, though, when you start asking them to speak about the film, all these weird moments that are way out of the ordinary, that we do a lot of in our pictures, they don't hold up to critical analysis from an untrained professional critic very well.

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.