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And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank You for Smoking' is that 'Up in the Air' deals with the complicated human stuff in a way that my other films have not. It's a more articulated film, and because of that, I'm most proud of it.

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.

I've done other things, but it always seems like my sci-fi projects have been what people respond to the most, because those fans are extraordinary, so passionate.

As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.

It's a blessing to find a project you feel you have to make or you'll die.

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

When I am true to my inspiration, even fight for my design, the project always turns out well.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place.