What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

I don't just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other ones are crap.

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

We have nightmares because our brain is running simulations to put us in jeopardy to see what we'll do or to acclimatize us to that idea that something bad could happen. It's just how human beings are wired because the entire time we were evolving we had to jump quick or the leopard would get us or whatever it was. It's Darwinian.

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.