I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

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.