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

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

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 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.

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

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.