Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.
What's important for me is staying healthy.
I have control issues. For sure, no question.
For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.
There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it.
'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.
Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.
I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.
Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.
What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children.
I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.
Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?
'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.
Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.
It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.
I saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.
