The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

Sometimes you have dreams about the day or something like that. But, for the story, it's just present and what you have left ahead of you to do and how things look that day that you reflect on. It's just there until you're done.

I love Johnny (Depp). A lot of the stuff I've done for him stands out for me just because of the relationship and who he is.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

The whole switch from film to digital has changed some of the ways I use color and the juxtaposition of light and dark. It's getting better with digital, the separation's gotten better, but I still feel like it's really flatter than film, so I do a lot of screening and subtle textural printing and painting on clothes for film to get it not to look flat.

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.