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

The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that.

There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?

My direction as a person working in film has been to never get comfortable with anything I was doing. At the time that I decided to do action films, people were telling me, "Well, you can't do it. You're not that type. It's not going to work." And so obviously that made me think, "Well, that's not comfortable. Maybe I should try it. What can I do with it?" So I did that, and I'm glad I did it. I'll probably do it again, and I did other kinds of things that seemed like challenges for me, because I like being on the high wire.

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.