I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.