I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.

It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.

Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

Some days if I am not feeling great or I feel a bit down or anxious, I just go for a run and I instantly feel better. Despite all the technology we use in training these days, it remains an amazingly simple way to energise your mind.