The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

When I was young, I would stay in my backyard and I would create roads and tunnels and systems. My uncle had a sawmill, and we had all sorts of pieces of wood, and we'd create a city. I truly believe that kids enjoy the box better than the car or the toy that's inside. So many times during Christmas, watching a kid, or even myself... There is excitement toward your toy, but then you put the toy on the side and something is created with the package.

I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.

I don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.