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.

If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

Good morning starshine the earth says hello.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.