And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

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

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will show up. But you also have to educate, because people want to discover specific things about a world unlike their own - whether it's how hard it is to go to the moon or how scary it is to be on Omaha Beach.