I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.

I created my own concept art and went in and did a 90-minute presentation that cost me a lot of money.And, the great thing is though, when I got the job, they had to buy all of it from me, because one of the set pieces in the middle of the movie was the scene I wrote, and they needed to own everything because a lot of it ended up being the movie we made, so I got all my money back. I was committed. I was going to outspend every competing director.

At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.

I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.

I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.

We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have.

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.