The thing is, right now the films don't need to be overtly political to be about our times. We also need films that are just human, that are about people. People need that, too. It's like we need to reconnect to what it is to be human. Not just what our political situation is. That's not what I'm thinking about exclusively. Human content is needed again, as it was in the '70s. I think films were more human than they've been since then.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

I love comedies. I take comedy very seriously as a form. It's a serious form, involving a certain way of looking at life, specifically the painful aspects of life. I get asked, "How can you have such failures in your films?" Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.

In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

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.