Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine.

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.