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

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.

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

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

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.

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."

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.