The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.

Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.

I'm not a fan of Star Wars. That is not for me. That is for my nephews and nieces. I don't get it.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.

Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.

To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.

Violence is not funny.

And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

You cannot be responsible for some things that happen on earth. You may attempt to act, God alone will decide. Some things are mysteries!

Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong...For What It’s Worth

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

I...am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light...in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.

I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.