You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on.

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

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

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.