One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

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

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

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

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

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.

There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.