The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

I prefer writing originals.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

I love IMAX when it works right.

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.