Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down from my producing partners to people like Eddie Vedder. But the two things that make me feel that this was meant to be now and not before was that the story itself has more resonance today - I find it a more important story today than it was then - and Emile.