When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.

I guess you don't make any franchise movies unless the fans are there.

We got together and realized that Universal made it clear that they were out of the Riddick business. They didn't want to spend that kind of money anymore. So, it was going to be an independent movie.

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene before that. I can adequately find my way. I'm experienced enough to do that.

To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?