In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.

It's very hard for a studio to take a chance on a piece of original material. They used to have the fall-back of DVD sales. They had ways in which they could safely make an investment in a piece of original material, and those opportunities aren't necessarily there anymore.

Sometimes rules are there to save your life.

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.

I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.