You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

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

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

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

I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career.

You never want to intentionally make a confusing 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.