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

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

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

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.

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?

Had we had all the money in the world to spend and we were doing another studio movie, we probably would have jumped quickly into the Necromonger universe and done an Orpheus Descending movie there. We didn't have that kind of resource. So, we said, this time, "If not that, this time, then what is it? What does this new movie look like?" Quickly, just in talking about it very simply with Vin [Diesel] in his kitchen, we decided on a survival, left-for-dead story, where Riddick could, as a character, reclaim the animal side.