We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

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 love recording music.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.