When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.