I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

I like stories that begin with characters. I like to be engaged and moved by the characters in the story. I want to be moved. I want to leave the cinema and think about what I've seen. My sensibility is quite eclectic and it doesn't matter if they are small or large films, I just want to make good films.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.

In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a brilliant director, great script and talented people in every department who are smarter than you.

We tell the stories that we want to tell.