You hear people say that there's too much CG in movies today, but CG is what allows me to take a green-painted wall in a studio and make it disappear, and then put 100 miles of landscape in. CG, in the right hands, can be a marvelous tool.

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

You hear people say that there's too much CG in movies today, but CG is what allows me to take a green-painted wall in a studio and make it disappear, and then put 100 miles of landscape in. CG, in the right hands, can be a marvelous tool.

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

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

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

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.