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

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.

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

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.

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.

If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.

Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

My mother was an authority on pig sties. This is the worst looking pigsty I have ever seen in my life, and I want it cleaned up right now.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

We need the books that affect us like a disaster

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

Ministry to the poor is a crucial sign that we believe the gospel.