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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.

I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.

I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.

You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age.

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

If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

We want to make movies for the big screen. We want people to go to the theater and feel like they're watching a movie.

At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.