"There are no rebels in the cinema business."

"I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme."

"I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist."

"There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming."

"It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters."

"I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well."

"Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it."

"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."