For 100 years they claimed that 478 people died [in the 1906 earthquake] in San Francisco.

Most people don't realize the magnitude of what happened here in 1906 in San Francisco,

There were really two stages to the disaster. The earthquake was in itself enormous and San Francisco was badly damaged, but the greatest horror and chaos would soon follow in the form of the worst urban fire in American history.

I have a lot of friends that work for George Lucas, who spent 30 years of their lives making furry little critters run around and talk, ... And they've always believed that some of that technology should be used to tell a story that's slightly more real.

I get bored easily, I'm always doing something different,

You're talking about an ecological disaster of unprecedented proportion,