I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting...
The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask
Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.
I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors...
Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everyth...
I love short trips to New York to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.
There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.
I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainme...
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things...
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.