I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans.

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

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

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.