You kids shouldn't play so rough . . . somebody's gonna start crying.

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.

I don't have a boss . . . nobody tells me what to do.

I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.

Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for 'Free Willy.' Or maybe I will.

Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a lot more time available. I think that makes a huge difference. I think he instinctively knows how to make films and all the different ways that you can make stuff. He's very gadget-wise, and he's very smart about all the different things that are available to a filmmaker nowadays, and he makes very good use of them. He has a theater in his house, for God's sake. It has proper curtains on it and everything. It's pretty wild.