I Think Cynicism Lasts. Sentimentality Ages, Dates

I Like Voice-over In Films, And Most Of My Films Have Been Voice-over Films.

I Always Wanted 'sideways' To Be Like A Great 1960s Italian Film.

I Spend A Long Time Casting, But Once I've Cast A Film There's A Reason Why I Selected Those People. So I'm Hands-on In Selecting The Cast, Hands-off To See What They Do With Their Characters, And Hands-on Again To Offer Suggestions.

I Want Studios To Be Financing Director-driven, Auteurist Cinema, As They Did In The '70s. I Think It's Starting To Happen Now. Plus, Because Of How Our World Has Changed Politically, I Think Audiences Are Demanding More Realism. We Need To Have More Stuff In Our Culture About What Is Really Going On Right Now.

What Science-fiction Premises Do Is It Gives You A "what-if" Prism To Look At The Contemporary World With A Wack On The Side Of The Head.