When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect, basically a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.

You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?," or, "Why would anyone ever want to go see that?"

From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the shooting on 'Jumper' was done 'Swingers'-style because that was the only way we could afford to do it.

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them.

If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.