I hate losing laughs; they're rare things.

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

My strength, if it's anything, is that I can lure some big-name actors in. That's probably the strength of almost any director now. On your own, as a director, you've only got so much weight. James Cameron, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay... that's about it. Everybody else depends on the star power that they can draw.

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

I can feel my dreams but I can't remember them.