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Comic Books And Graphic Novels Are A Great Medium. It's Incredibly Underused.

I Remember The Few Times That Happened To Me In Writing, Where You Basically Start Writing And You Look At The Clock And Six Hours Have Gone By And You're, Like, "whoa! What The Hell Just Happened?" And That Piece Ends Up In The Final Product Even Though The Final Product Is Three Years Away. It Doesn't Get Rewritten. It Came Out The Right Way. But That's Happened To Me So Few Times In My Life.

When I Go To Movies I Generally Want To Be Taken To Another World.

I Had Some Big Ups And Downs When I Was In My 20s And The One Thing I Learned Was, No Matter How Low It Gets, Something Good Will Come Along - Something Always Comes Out Of That Dark Period.

I've Been Joking That If Madonna Taught Us Anything, You've Got To Reinvent Yourself. I Think It's Important As A Filmmaker, As Any Person Working In The Arts, That You've Got To Try New Stuff And Challenge Yourself And Take Chances. I've Tried To Take A Chance With Every Film I've Done - I've Never Done It The Easy Way, And I Think That's Because That's What Excites Me, Is Making As Big A Mountain As I Can In Front Of Me, And Just Trying To Mount It.