I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and on time and dealing with selling the movie so that to me is a focus. But also it's about serving the script. We are genre filmmakers, those are the films we love to make, so my perspective is a little different.

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.

There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important.

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

I was also an Action Comic fan when I was a young kid and those comic books affected me and Superman is - he's the one. He's the first one. He's the one. He's the one everybody is always compared to.

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