The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.

I'm not really interested in making money.