I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

I slept for four days when I turned 40.

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

You need to be silly to be funny.

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?