It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum...
It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.
I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles...
I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.
So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.
There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.
What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I...
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...
I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.