There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.
You can say, "I don't believe in anything," but you do because you believe in nothing. That is your belief system.
I want to do things that are very outside of the box, and I want to do movies that no one else can do. If someone else can make the movie that I'm making, then I shouldn't do it.
I'm smart enough to realize that the world does not stop and change because I want it to.
I think there's a perception of me that I'm the dark lord of all that is scary and gory, but that's completely false. I love musicals. My house is very bright and lit. It's not what people would really expect from a Saw director, but I think that's what allows me to do the things that I do.
I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours.
I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go off and make a rock opera. I think it's a very specific niche.
Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation.
Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.
I'd love to work on something that gets some type of critical respect. This business is sometimes so brutal - you work on something for months and really feel like the project is good and you're doing the best work you can, and then it just gets hammered by critics. It's such a bummer sometimes, because everything seems to build up to the release and a couple of bad reviews can make it seem like it was all a waste, which you know it wasn't.
If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.