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The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there. You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

While it's easy to sit back and cherry pick bad visual effects and blame the industry for making movies the way they are, you're really not seeing the whole picture.

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

I'm always flabbergasted and overwhelmed by the audience a film reaches.