When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

We need a new media channel, the press version of a third party, where those financial pressures to maintain audience are absent.

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it’s something that you fight for.

To the transgender community, I am more than willing to give you an audience, but you will not summon me. I am not bending to anybody’s demands.

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

I’m kind of an introvert, so I really do have to get over some anxiety to get on stage and connect with an audience. Once I do, it’s amazing, but it is a bit of a struggle.