I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

Life and career kind of catches up with you.

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.

Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.

Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.

I played lots of games and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games.

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.

I'm a cruel man to myself.

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

If you love something, let it go. If it does not come back it was not yours to began with.

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.

There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people.

The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!

Like people, plants respond to extra attention.

It's a great time to be alive and be a computer weenie.

You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.