My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.

Life and career kind of catches up with you.

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.

Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.

I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.

I played lots of games and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games.

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.

Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

We have the responsibility to put our gifts to work.

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

In the silence of LOVE you will find the Spark of LIFE.

The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

Labor is life; thought is light.