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

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.

It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses?

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.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks.

I don't look at scripts. I just write them.