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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.