The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble.

I think going into space would be like going deep into the ocean, like 5,000 meters down. When you go down that far, it's just awfully black. There's not much there except mud and some particles. I imagine space would be a similar thing. The only difference is you're hoping to bump into some sort of intelligent extraterritorial being.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.