I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

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!

At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies.

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.

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

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 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.