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

“ My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky. ”

“ Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. ”

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

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

“ Money to me is not a factor in my life. ”

“ When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. ”

“ Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true. ”

“ I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded. ”

“ 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. ”