The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.

There are some movies that I would like to forget for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.

I cry a lot you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise but I do. I cry in movies you know just watching movies.

Listen I think movies serve many different purposes from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

I've done many different movies in many different contexts.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

I want to make timeless movies.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.