I don't know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in really awful situations and make them go through that. And it's very satisfying as a director to explore that, to tell those stories and to explore those themes, because it is so human.

If you want the human psyche, how we deal with humans in these situations, WWII is a very tangled place to go.

We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

When you go to the movies, you expect the movie to create a world that you can immerse yourself in, that you can step into. Sci-fi is a beautiful way of doing that.

You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You're going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it.