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

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.

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

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

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

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

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 think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.