Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

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.

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.

Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.

I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.

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.

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.