Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.