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.

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on it while you shoot it. I think those are lessons you learn on any film.

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

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

Well the only reason to go back, for me and I think for anyone involved would be if we could do something truly spectacular. We've been talking about it for a couple years and there's always been this idea, a big idea, in the back of my head that we've been talking about.