Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it?

There's always gonna be criticisms, no matter what movie you do, no matter what. You can't please everybody, and it doesn't matter what the genre is. There's always gonna be a positive to a negative comment.

I'm doing the same thing and it's a hundred times bigger and a hundred times better. So if your going to make a computer game off a movie, is it going to be like "Avatar" where it's going to be a prequel before Jake even got to the planet. You've got to be smart because audiences demand that.

I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.

Each job you have has it's own challenges. One of the great things about my job, is that each film is a different journey.

If you look at the whole world now it's just computer games, graphic novels, film, TV spinoffs, spinoffs of spinoffs like Deadpool spinning off of Wolverine. So I think that any kind of smart producer looks at all of those bases. Once it comes down to the integrity of it audiences are very smart, they smell that they're just kind of being played.

Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.