I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.
Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.
There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.
You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
