What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.