So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.

To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don't buy into the notion that because it's fantastic, it should be unrealistic, because I think you have to have a sense of believing the world that you're going into.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.