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

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.

Damn, my first cut that I showed to distributors was probably about two hours and 20 minutes, even though my contract said two hours. So, I had to lose 20 minutes. It's incredible that it just keeps happening.

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

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.

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

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.