Director

In a way, metafiction breaks down the story and makes it less real. But in another respect, by that very breaking down, it actually makes things feel more real than they would to begin with.

I'm a little bit twisted, so what makes me laugh the hardest doesn't necessarily make other people laugh.

When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.

I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.

I love the attention and I hate the attention, you know? It's not always good for your soul.

'Monty Python And The Holy Grail' is a hugely important movie to me. I remember watching it for the first time on cable when I was about 13 years old.

The majority of my life is 'Guardians,' but being able to clean my brain a little bit by doing something totally different like 'Belko' was incredibly helpful to the creative process.

I love 'Empire' - it's my favorite of the 'Star Wars' series.

I can't be told life is beautiful through a normal positive thinking book or a Hallmark movie; that language doesn't work for me.

A lot of people die in my movies. So if you're in a few of my movies, you have a good chance of dying!

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.

I can't be told life is beautiful through a normal positive thinking book or a Hallmark movie; that language doesn't work for me.

I love shooting movies. I love the shots. That's the thing that I love doing, and I've just never been able to do it.

I love raccoons. I had a raccoon figurine collection as a kid, and I now have two movies with 'Ranger Rick' jokes in them. I love 'em. They come in my back yard all the time, and we just stare at each other like a couple of idiots.

I'm in favor of anything that will give strong women more visibility in popular culture.

For the theatrical experience to survive, spectacle films need to expand their definition of what they can be. They need to be unique and true voices of the filmmakers behind them. They can't just be copying what came before them.

Definitely, 'True Detective' was a great example of one director, one story. It worked fantastically well. Well, I thought it worked fantastically well; I know a lot people didn't.

I made 'Super' for $3 million, and that was filmed in 24 days. And that $3 million dollars went to a lot of things other than what shows up on screen. Once you get done with the unions and everything else, that's just, like, the basic cost of what you can make a movie for.

I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse, and then they pop into high gear, and then they go back into slow, and then they pop into high gear again.