I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

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

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.

I quickly said that, because of my loyalty to 'Star Trek' and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to be involved in the next version of those things. I declined any involvement very early on. I’d rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them.