When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it.

I try not to go back in retrospect and say oh, I shouldn't have done this or shouldn't have done that. You make your decisions and you live by them.

I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company - there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing.

Half the fun is plan to plan

I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.