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

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

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.

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

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.