The capacity to create [visual] effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that you can with a few more keystrokes generate such a busy canvas that the eye doesn't know where to go. You lose human scale on an event and you're just wowed by the kinetics and the visualization. But, often in those cases I feel you lose touch with the human characters and what it is that they would feel and how they might feel, and that's still the most important part.

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

Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.

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

I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.

I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along.

I think that the best movies are made, not from a point of view that depends on your personal history, whether it's the color of your skin or the politics that you had or the place that you come from, but from a point of view of an understanding of human nature, an understanding of history, and an understanding of what motivates people.