Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

I try not to get too cute for cute's sake.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

I love superheroes and I love weird horror films... I could definitely feel that there was a lack of movies like The Martian being made: smart genre movies that can appeal to adults.

In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.