MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

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.

Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong screenplay, it's easy to fall back on special effects, thinking it's going to carry you. But it never works. It's just tiresome.

I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.

Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.