I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.
If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.
When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
