“All my movies are about people with some ideology, but guess what? It never works out.”

“The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.”

“People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.”

“People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.”

“I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.”

“If you come down to it, there's only a handful of worlds that action films live in. You have your car chases, your gun fights, and your fights.”

“I think, ultimately, if you create characters that people like and can relate to, your characters are grounded on a human level even if your cars are not.”

“Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house.”

“We live in a world that relies on technology.”

“I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.”

“You know what's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist; when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.”