"I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion."

"As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me."

"I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies."

"I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think."

"I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something."

"Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word."

"I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story."

"I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all."