When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business.

Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks.

I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.

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.

I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.