Audiences don't ever disappoint me in the sense that movies I feel really good about they usually feel really good about too.

I loved Alien and I loved Carrie and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done and unusual and they all took horror to some new place.

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies and thrillers and Kurosawa films you know where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week and if I'm not doing anything at night I'm usually watching a movie or two.

On radio and television magazines and the movies you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

Usually when you see females in movies they feel like they have these metallic structures around them they are caged in by male energy.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies and usually not the subject of the film.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.