“That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurrin...” — Brian De Palma Quote

“That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.”

“Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.”

“I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.”

“I think that some of the archetypes and works of science fiction that have pierced pop culture and stayed there are the darker ones and the dystopias.”

“Comics deal with fundamental archetypes. We've been called the myth-makers of the modern age.”

“We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?”