What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up.

I love IMAX when it works right.

I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.

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

You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.

I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.