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.

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.

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

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

If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.

I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

A kid asked me for advise about getting into entertainment? I said you better know how to be happy being broke!

If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.