I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.

Cameron Crowe is someone who I've admired for so long, and I've been friends with him for many years, and I've wanted to work with him so badly that I just never stopped bothering him about writing a script that would be for a pilot.

Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you're creating and writing it, or sometimes you're writing and directing it, or other times you're there from the very beginning.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.