We're adventurous. We process different kinds of materials, not just steel aluminum.

I was out of work and had the experience. I knew I could do it.

Just about anything except glass.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

I think I could probably make $5 to $10m movies for a very long time and live a perfectly good life doing it. I'd probably get paid as well as a surgeon, which is pretty damn remarkable for a guy who went to film school.