I always kept myself fairly fit.

I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.

The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film.

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

There's something nice about making a night of the theater rather than sitting in front of your TV.

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

Basically you want as many people as possible to see your movie.