I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

I really unfortunately don't have tons of hilarious Sundance stories, because really I am not the biggest fan of hanging out, but the reason why is because I never go see other people's movies and I think that's the way to do it.