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I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

I don't storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot - on the air, as we say - at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

I don't do storyboarding, ever; I'm not interested in that.