"I'm a big fan of genre films. I think they're a lot of fun."

"Insects too. Unless I'm paying to see some bizarro documentary, I'm not paying to see real death. Part of the way that this all works is that it's all just make believe. That's why I can stand the vio…"

"If you have the passion to do it, and you do it and it doesn't work out—I worked for 3 years on a 16mm movie that became nothing but guitar picks. And I was very disappointed when I realized it wasn't…"

"I don't like to be realistic. I like to be fantastical."

"My movies are painfully personal but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are it's my job to make it be personal and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how pe…"