"Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination."

"I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile."

"People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear."

"I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope."

"When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition."

"My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way."

"The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?"

"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened."