It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.
Shouldn't you be asking for my name first?
Solitude sometimes is best society.
…she had no resources for solitude…
The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.
Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.
the code of a world he'd never been invited to join.
There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.
With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.
I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.
The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
I enjoy scaring people too much to let it go!
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.
When you cast, you can't cast only visually; you have to cast emotionally, too.
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!
We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.
