The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie.

Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie.

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

I came out of film school and went after movies that I thought audiences wanted to see or that the studios wanted, as opposed to the movies that I wanted. Over the last 10 years, I've gravitated more and more toward the films that I grew up loving - classic Spielberg, Lucas, James Cameron and Ridley Scott movies.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.

Quentin [Tarantino] is a filmmaker who really dives into things very seriously and deeply. And when he does interviews, he really wears his heart on his sleeve and he doesn't hold anything back.