Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.
You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.
It's such a drag to make a movie.
Changing the game is a mindset.
It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.
I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.
What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.
Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I'm working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production levels.
I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.