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

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.

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

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.

3-D is a truly exciting possibility.

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