“My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre.”

I don’t write any kind of sequel or remake.

In the grand scheme of nature, I believe that it is very natural that animals eat animals, and that humans eat animals. It is only in the last couple of decades that meat-processing factories have come to rise, and I believe we should take time to reflect on that reality.

I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you’ve seen is just the tip of the creature’s tail.

From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.

I don’t intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

I’ve directed a fair amount of television series – so I’m always trying to learn new things.

I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated.

You never know how a single interaction with a person might affect their life, so you must constantly try to be at your best.

We have a society that’s trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

When you try to be everything to everyone, you accomplish being nothing to anyone

My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.

We have absolutely done as much work as we can on finding out things like that and we’ll try to get all the information that we can as that would apply to any current situation, which I can’t talk about.

I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.