I'm always happy to talk to somebody; it's flattering that people remember your movies. Especially some movie that you did, for Christ's sake, almost 35 years ago, or what's especially pleasant is if you're talking about some movie that you did 35 years ago and they're 20 years old.

I don't much like looking back.

I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies.

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.

When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.

I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.