I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a hero is a hero. I like making pictures about people who have a personal mission in life or at least in the life of a story who start out with certain low expectations and then over achieve our highest expectations for them. That's the kind of character arc I love dabbling in as a director, as a filmmaker.

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.