“I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me, Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable. I'm more wary of my intellectual mind, of becoming delusional if I think of it too much.”
“We all know interspecies romance is weird.”
“People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.”
"You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.”
“If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.”
“One person's crazyness is another person's reality.”
“People might say 'oh its too dark and scary' for children but you could say that about 'Nightmare before Christmas' also. People say their dog even liked watching 'Nightmare Before Christmas'. So this is for animals, children, whoever.”
“There's a roughness and a surprising nature to most B movies that you don't get in classic films-something more immediate. I never chose those movies to leave impressions in my brain, they just did.”
