You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.'

I do agree you can’t just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that’s longer than most marriages.

It’s a very American thing to hide away from death.

You have the power to pause stuff and you have the power to go to the bathroom. You can do whatever you want in your own home. It’s a much more relaxed thing. It’s more like a book, it seems to me. That’s kind of the way I watch movies.

For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there’s somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don’t know he has a refrigerator full of penises.

If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it’s bad and way too much credit when it’s good.

I’ve never been to Harvard, I’ve never been to college, so I don’t know what dorm life is like.

Hollywood is great. I also think it’s stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

I don’t think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.