Both as a filmmaker and as a fan I love the behind-the-scenes stuff, I like it even more than deleted scenes frankly. Especially when you're happy with the movie and you're proud of it, those deleted scenes give you also a sense of the making of the film and the process through which you end up with the final product.

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I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about easter eggs.

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All I can say is, death is a part of life.

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I just want to keep learning.

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You've got to trust [that] your own compass will lead you away from whatever mistakes were made.

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Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

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There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.

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I came out of film school and went after movies that I thought audiences wanted to see or that the studios wanted, as opposed to the movies that I wanted. Over the last 10 years, I've gravitated more and more toward the films that I grew up loving - classic Spielberg, Lucas, James Cameron and Ridley Scott movies.

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I think change is happening in ways we can't anticipate yet because the whole generation of viewers who are viewing films - film may not be the appropriate word in years to come. I'm excited about the possibility of new types of storytelling; that to me is less daunting. I'm excited by how we'll evolve with those formats thematically, tonally and in narrative.

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Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie.

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I've always been curious what the negotiation is because obviously there's certain movies that every film wants a trailer on, like Star Wars, and I don't know how Disney makes the decisions as to what it does and doesn't put on there. I'm assuming that whatever movies are the same studio as the film get first priority, but then everybody else is fighting for the remaining spots.

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I feel pressure as a fan. I don't really feel pressure from the fans, if that makes sense. I worked on other movies, like the X-Men movies, that have big fan followings. And if you start to get lost in those voices, you will be completely lost. I feel the pressure of the 6-year-old me.

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Every movie has its complexities and its challenges.

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Last thing you want to do with a good movie is hold the audience hostage. As an entertainer myself, I just know it's better when you leave 'em wanting more than to stick around too long.

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Quentin [Tarantino] is a filmmaker who really dives into things very seriously and deeply. And when he does interviews, he really wears his heart on his sleeve and he doesn't hold anything back.

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I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

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The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie.

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Usually, you just have a hero and a villain - in any movie, not just a superhero movie.

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I think the best science fiction, especially literature, is political in nature and is often an allegory about something problematic in our world, and it's something that makes the 'X-Men' comics so relevant - they're about xenophobia and prejudice.

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I'm like a geek that grew up playing with Star Wars toys and creating action sequences, essentially, with toys.

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One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film.

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