I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

People in LA seem to have no concept of the time outside of their city. I've been trained for thirty years in the film industry of having whether its agents, lawyers, actors, or whoever calling up all night.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.