When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.
Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.
I love working with great actors.
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
I kind of like working fast.
It's such a drag to make a movie.
That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot.
I collect a lot of art.
Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.
I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'
What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.
I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.
A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.
People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.
People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.
I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.
Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.
I definitely want to produce more because I have a bunch of projects that I've either written or half written and I want to continue developing them and if cant direct one right away cause I'm doing something else I will love to still see it get made.
It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.
Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.
Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
