This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

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.

I don't like nihilistic characters. As bad guys they're great, but as heroes they don't work.

I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.

Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

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