I would love to stay alone when I'm creating.

In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

I could feel the real interaction between directing and acting, when an actor or an actress really suggests very interesting things.

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

Existence is enough grace.

A world without problems is an illusion, so is a world without solutions.

When Eve upon the first of MenThe apple press’d with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities thenThat Adam was not adamant!

I really love music and I want to make it better the best I can.

Don't put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.

The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.

Law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

If you don't act on life, life will act on you