Actor

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.

But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on.

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.

My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

I actually did use to sell shoes.