My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.
That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.
The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.
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.
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.
It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.
With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out.
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.
I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.
After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.
But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on.
Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.
Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.
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.