I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

My films do very well on home video.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

Build bridges, not walls.

My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound.

Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.

It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.

Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past!

I don't have a type, really. But I've always been more attracted to girls who yell fire.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

The harder you look, the harder you look.

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

As a species we're fundamentally insane.