This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.

Unprotected sex just feels better in a Waffle House bathroom.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.