Nowadays everyone's got the nose rings and the colored hair, so for me to wear the suit and tie is a different way to go.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.

Time seems to slow down for me when I focus on staying in the moment and that helps me maintain a sense of balance.

Love and say it with your life.

I want to have a good time myself. I don't want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that?

If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.