Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

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

Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

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

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

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.