I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

I never went back to TV.

I mean, they're talking about messing with Superman's costume! That's like messing with apple pie and white bread!

I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that.

For something that has been around as long as Superman in my life, it's totally new. What would be more exciting?

California, here I come! I had every postcard ever printed. I jumped at the chance!

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?

I felt that Krypton had a life and a look of its own. As soon as the crystals came in, Krypton took on a life of its own.

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.