You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.