Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

I choose work with the people I like to work with.

If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water

Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.

I think the days are over where we were okay with bad guys just doing the pirate laugh and eating kids just for fun. There has to be a goal, you know? They have to have a point, and they have to make sense.

Everyone who makes a Star Wars film wants to make it their own but they also have to be true to the concept.

I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.