Director

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

Money to me is not a factor in my life.

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

Hanya satu generasi pembaca yang akan menjangkau satu generasi penulis.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.