Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything.

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.