Confidence is preparation in action.

Of course, I was completely enthralled by the space program as a kid - particularly Apollo 11 - and was glued to the television like most of the world. Then I stopped thinking about it too much. I was a little disappointed that they weren't going on to Mars at the time, but I didn't think much of it. I was more interested in becoming a director at that point in my life and falling in love, things like that.

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

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

3-D is a truly exciting possibility.

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

Sports always works for us more allegorically or metaphorically and that's what's fantastic about why we love them. You demonstrate the limits to which a human being can go and they keep pushing the boundaries of that.