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.

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.

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

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.

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.