Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.

I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

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

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

Failure is an option, fear is not.

The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world 10, 20 years from now.

I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.