Even if I had $200 million, I’m very wary of overusing CGI. I think it’s a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.

Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.

My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel I learned how to tell a story visually, by just going out with a video camera and making movies with my friends and family.

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit.

You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

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