Well getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

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 have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

On radio and television magazines and the movies you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

I just love movies so suddenly you're political about movies and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.

With the CGI suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb it's kind of what these movies are all about.

Even today in our progressive times in most movies that come out the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.