I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.

You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching that itch we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it. That's the philosophical side.

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

Every religion, in my opinion, has something to bring, and I think we all learn from everyone that there's no right, perfect way to look at something.

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .