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

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

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

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

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

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?