I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

I was always looking for a career that could combine my creative interests with my technical side, and it ends up directing films is the perfect combination.

There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.

Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I here? What is it that makes me who I am? Those are the kind of questions my favorite science fiction films ask.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.