I feel like we're going to see a lot more movies that mix documentary style with fiction, more along the lines of 'District 9.'
Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.
In this day and age, people have come to expect that artists are going to give everybody information on Twitter about what they're doing, but not every artist is like that. I'm not really like that.
If I was painting a picture, I wouldn't want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I'd rather show people what it looks like when it's done.
Before we even approached this movie, the 'Fantastic Four' on its own is very unique.
When I was in middle school and high school, I was over 100 pounds overweight.
I was made fun of by a lot of other kids in such a way that I didn't feel like I was human.
People are religious about comics the way people are religious about the Bible.
I'm a big, big movie fan; really, I've seen everything. I really mean that, too.
I ended up losing weight and going through a lot of stuff, but yeah, that is so much of my life and my past. I'm glad that I went through that because I don't think I would be where I am now if I hadn't gone through it. It spills over in most of my love for movies and being alone.
I am very sensitive about characters being annoying in movies.
'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.
I knew that this was going to be questioned and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left 'Star Wars'.
You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.
You can't have bad without good. You can't have right without wrong. You can't have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, 'Fantastic Four.'
