People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

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.

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

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?

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