I don’t feel that I’m making movies for iPhones. If someone wants to watch it on an iPhone, I’m not going to stop them, especially if they’re paying for it, but I don’t recommend it. I think it’s dumb, when you have characters that are so small in the frame that they’re not visible. I’m trying to make an epic.

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly.

I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my process. It's really demented, but it actually works. When you are aiming really high and doing something new, you must be also prepared to fail, learn from your mistakes and begin with a new plan. More motivated than before.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

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

If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.