I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.
At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.
There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.
I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.
I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.
I created my own concept art and went in and did a 90-minute presentation that cost me a lot of money. And, the great thing is though, when I got the job, they had to buy all of it from me, because one of the set pieces in the middle of the movie was the scene I wrote, and they needed to own everything because a lot of it ended up being the movie we made, so I got all my money back. I was committed. I was going to outspend every competing director.
Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.
This happens to me every couple of years. I'll look at someone I respect and I'll realize that he's outworking me. It changes the way I behave for the next half decade.