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.

I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

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

Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.