"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."

"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."

"I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen."

"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."

"David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does."

"The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it."

"My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel."

"Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps."