I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.