I feel like people want to be surprised when they get out of the movies. They want something thrown at them they didn't expect. They want stuff that reminds them of the feelings that you get when you're watching art house movies but with the fun of like a big summer movie. That's the goal, I guess.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

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 mean, the first “Back to the Future” is kind of a perfect script, I think. In terms of handling time travel the best, it depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.

Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small and keep making my movies. If I can keep writing them and making them, I'll be happy.

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.