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

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.

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

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

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.

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?