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 felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

When you're done shooting, the movie that you're going to release when you're done shooting is as bad as it will ever be. And then through editing, and finishing the effects and adding music, you get to make the movie better again. So I'm really hard on myself and on the movie.

When I move from being a cameraman to being a director I looked at a lot of other cameramen who tried to make the move. And in each case they moved up their camera operator to be the DP, which really meant they didn't want to give up being the DP, and really wanted to do both. And my feeling was if I was going to succeed as a director, I had to just be a director and give up the safety net of being a cameraman.

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.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

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