The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some.

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however you define that, be it making a bunch of dough, which the actors never see much of, or whether it's a piece that's enlightening or stays with the audience maybe six, seven or even eight or 10 years later.