There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we filmmakers made.

As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasnt until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors.