Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.