I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.
I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.
The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.
You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.
That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.
Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.
I actually did use to sell shoes.
I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.
I don't think BitCoin has ever been anything but a legitimate enterprise. Currency is currency, it's used for good and ill.
I have been interested in global web-based communities and emerging technologies since the mid 80's. There is a revolution occurring in global culture at the moment, that will change everything. And it's only just beginning.
It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.
Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.
Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.
I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.
After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.
