I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

Whatever is being investigated, created or produced now, in movies or TV, needs to consider the context in which it is being distributed. It's not a vacuum. There are certain universal themes of love, conflict, loyalty or family that are everlasting and that need to be presented in a way that makes it feel relevant, even if it's a period piece. You need to consider what context that film, that story and those characters are being seen in.

I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

I think that the success of the film is as much about it being something that families could share as anything else.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.