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

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

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

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 was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks... lying that I knew how to drive a truck... and doing commercials and documentaries.

I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.