I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them anyway!
I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
People who come to see my movies, you're coming to see a drama masquerading as a genre piece.
The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.
Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.
I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.
I consider myself an independent filmmaker.
The whole world makes comic book movies now.
I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.
I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.
I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.