Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems to want me.

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.