Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you’re really going about it the wrong way.

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

I haven't made anything I don't believe in. I've always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I'm a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I'm feeling good about.

There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.