“You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.”

“I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.”

“My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.”

“Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.”

“I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.”

“I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.”

“I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.”

“As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.”

“I cast unusual people in my movies.”