I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. I love taking a bunch of characters and it usually is a bunch of characters, and you throw something at them that's usually extreme, like a bag of money, or you send them out to explode a nuclear device on the surface of the sun. And those extremes are wonderful for drama.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

There is a Steve [Jobs] that Apple would like to actually present to the public. They have a character, Steve, and they want to keep that story going. And it's very important that writers challenge that occasionally and not just trust their parent companies to tell them.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.