It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.

When Apollo 13 appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel, and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.