Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.

Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small and keep making my movies. If I can keep writing them and making them, I'll be happy.

I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.