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.

The films you're making have to be faithful to the material.

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

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

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

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

We tell the stories that we want to tell.