Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.

You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.

[I watch] Fincher, Spielberg, Cameron, McTiernan. Just people who are good at staging action. I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.