It's important to have people who will question you occasionally.

'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and...

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

I think people should digest work, not encounter it. You need to bring it in. You need to eat it.

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.

Bigger-budgeted films have more restrictions and less freedom to create. Because of this, I try to find freedom in the people I work with. I often work in ways I don't want to. It's more about...

Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.

The kinds of films I like are the ones that take their time. If you reach an emotional pinnacle too early on in a film, that's kind of it. I think, as in real life, when you're getting to know...

Everyone looks at our films and thinks that we are somehow able to make movie after movie that does well and is entertaining, but there's an enormous amount of work that goes on under the hood and an...

The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

I don't think I could have made a good movie out of 'Thor 2' because I wasn't the right director. And I don't think I would have been in the running for 'Wonder Woman' as a result. And that's one of...

Unlike 'The Nutty Professor,' the hero of my film is romantic. 'Badhaai Ho Badhaai' is a family film, while 'The Nutty Professor' had a lot of double-meaning dialogues.

When people are crass or loudmouthed, it's not because they don't give a damn. It's from fear and insecurity.

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

I just think it's interesting to start a dialogue.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

As a storyteller, I am always looking for magnificent human stories.

Other than Peter Jackson doing 'Lord of the Rings,' I don't get it when filmmakers follow up a movie with a sequel to the same movie. God bless 'em if they can be up for it, but that would drive me...

If the Russians masterminded fraud for 40 years at the highest state level in sports, operating behind the scenes to corrupt sports, what else are they capable of?

We personally don't try to follow industry trends or themes. We just try and make something that we think would be cool and we want to make.

I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to...

I'm interested in characters that are complex people.

When communism collapsed in 1989, the big story that had been hardwired into citizens of western countries - that of the global battle against a distant dark and evil force - came to an abrupt end.