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.

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

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.

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.

The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on.