Nobody can make a movie as exciting as Jerry Bruckheimer. When it's a Jerry Bruckheimer movie that it's going to have lots of chrome and gloss, it's going to be sexy, and it's going to be big and fun.

I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.

The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look forward to sharing them with their parents, a ritual if you will, where they get to spend time together and the kids are smiling.

I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.

All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.