I Wasn't A Big Comic Book Reader.

I Was Never Interested In What Everybody Else Was Interested In. I Was Very Interiorized. I Always Felt Kind Of Sad.

My Parents Suffered From That Ideal Of A Perfect Nuclear Family. They Found That A Difficult Pressure, I Think.

There Was One Moment, And It Happened In School. I Had A Big Final Exam - We Were Supposed To Write A 20-page Report On This Book About Houdini. I Probably Would Have Loved Reading It, But I Didn't, So I Just Decided To Make A Little Super-8 Movie Based On It. I Tied Myself To The Railroad Tracks And All That. I Mean, This Is Kid Stuff, But It Impressed The Teacher, And I Got An A. And That Was Maybe My First Turning Point, When I Said, 'yeah, I Wouldn't Mind Being A Filmmaker.'

That's What I Always Loved About [federico] Fellini's Films: You See The Weird Joy Of The Weird Filmmaking Family And The Abstract Craziness That Goes Along With It, And There's Something About It That's Quite Beautiful.

You Don't Know Whether Chimps Are Going To Kill You Or Kiss You. They're Very Open On Some Levels And Much More Evil In A Certain Way.