I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public’s idea of this myth comes from a million different places… I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked...

The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as ‘Chronicle’ was, it’s not as quick of a process. There are a lot more voices coming in and saying ‘This is what...

‘Chronicle 2’ has become this question of, ‘How do we all make a movie that we all respect?’ And that’s true to what ‘Chronicle’ is. There’s no one at the studio who wants to make...

What’s special about Superman is that he will always make the right choice.

Superman when he goes after someone is essentially not trying to beat them, he is trying to save them from themselves… You’re looking at a God who walks amongst men!

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.

What it comes down to is I don’t mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he...

Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think ‘super’ might have taken over.

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

‘Pied Piper’ came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not ‘dark,’ per se.

Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren’t. ‘Chronicle’ was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write,...