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 think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree.

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers.