The funny thing is I showed my daughter E.T. recently, and she was like, it's Pete's Dragon. It's a boy, who makes friend with a creature, and has to say goodbye at the end. I'd never made that connection!

We have audiences that seem to be embracing whether they've heard of the characters or not.

When you get into individual characters certainly there's been things that have been updated .

Clickbait is the worst. That's my big moral highground, when I don't click on clickbait.

When we bring the filmmaker, we bring somebody to help us elevate the material with those things, to help us do something different with all of those resources at their disposal.

I love female heroes too and would love to bring many more to the big screen in the future.

It was the television that turned me to film. My parents did take me to Pete's Dragon.