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

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."

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

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.

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.

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.

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.