I guess you don't make any franchise movies unless the fans are there.

When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!

Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.

To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene before that. I can adequately find my way. I'm experienced enough to do that.

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

The love of money can do wicked things to one's soul.

It is often amidst the chaos in our life that we finally find the reason for our existence.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

Sarcasm was a weapon for children.

If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time in pain and despair.

There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.