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If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film.

I think there's always this idea in your head, but you have to allow the film to take its own course.

If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country.

If you have skills to pull off even a four-hour film, people will go and watch it.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

My stupid ambition is to make a film that's not like any other - one that has its own kind of logic and hooks viewers without making them think too much. It's a film I'd love to see, one in which after 10 minutes the audience isn't able to predict the whole thing.