Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.

Even in our business, as is the world, we are in the age of specialisation. You see a lot of names of producers on a movie. If you have the idea, if you oversee the development, if you oversee the production, if you help package the movie, you sell the movie - you can be a producer. There's not a lot of us who do the whole gamut.

We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie was created in the 70s. There are great advances but with those come a great many complications.We felt that the character needed to grow up in that kind of environment and had to face those kinds of colossal choices that were not going to be easy. It's difficult to figure out the right path. And even if you do good there are causalities to your choices. We thought it would be compelling.

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey.

I think that Superman is the pinnacle of the DC Universe. Our feeling always was that you need to get Superman right. That was also our goal. We didn't want to ignore that this universe exists.