Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you’re really going about it the wrong way.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD.

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.