I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

A lot of people will think I changed the book: ‘so you’re the tiger instead, you’re the tiger who ate the cook.’ That’d be totally expository, like in the book, ‘you’re the tiger’ and then it stops there. That seems to have the magic touch. I bring everything together. That’s why he made up the story, the whole thing becomes internalized. That might be the magic, but all I did is not so much interpreted, but try my best to keep everybody still staying in the movie. And I was like, ‘God, it’s so hard to do.’ I make movies for a long time. It doesn't get easier.