When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a tough decision to make without seeing any pages. That's not to say that I don't have all the faith in the world in the spectacular writers.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

Every hour that you spend doing something, even if you love it more than anything, you're not with your family. Every project that you take on, that's another choice.

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

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