Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

I'm not the one or two take guy, but I'm not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it's usually for some technical reasons.

Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

It always happens at the end that you're always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.