At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.

My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.

I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.

I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.

I don't want to be a mind rapist!

Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.

Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

Identity is the role you chose to play in the story of the Universe.

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on the side of the road a while in that thing.

I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.

Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.