I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.