“My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.”

“I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.”

“One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.”

“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 I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.”

“I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.”

“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.”

“I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.”

“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.”