I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

Some contractors have lead times of three to four weeks. You don't want to push the person doing the work because you will affect the quality.

Even Preston Sturges wouldn't dare to rewrite a Preston Sturges script.

I've started the last three or four weeks so it looks like I'm now the starting wide receiver. But I [couldn't] care less who's starting. It's a matter of winning. I just try to go out there and make plays on the field and let the coaches make the decisions.

I will say that adapting a character like Da Vinci really wasn't that dissimilar from doing Batman or Superman. Because all three of these guys are really iconic figures, and yes, Da Vinci was historical, but there's clearly been a lot of mythmaking about him, and a lot of things have been attributed to him that may or may not have happened.