Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

The one aspect I do love about digital is I love to push performance and I love to roll and roll and keep doing takes in a single performance.

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how relevant one genre is to another. I think that westerns and samurai films and superhero films have a lot in common. It's just that the scale of the visuals in tentpole films can sometimes overwhelm the drama.

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.