You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.