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.

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.

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

Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.

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

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

Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.