If You're Going To Define Me Properly,

I Don't Take Trouble At All To Conform A Screenplay To My Iconography. I Don't Say, "we Can't Do That - The Audience Wouldn't Accept It." I Try To Take The Limitations Of What Is Required To Play A Leading Character And Then Screw With Them.

Because The Character Is A Fiction, He's A Composite Of Other Contributors To The Science That Brought This Enzyme Therapy Through The Process. We Had The Opportunity To Make Him Up Out Of Those Things That Helped Tell The Story. We Wanted To Create Both Ally And Antagonist For John [in The Extraordinary Measures].

I've Always Been Somewhere Down From The Top, So I've Never Had To Suffer Being Knocked Off The Top.

With The Cgi, Suddenly There's A Thousand Enemies Instead Of Six - The Army Goes Off Into The Horizon. You Don't Need That. The Audience Loses Its Relationship With The Threat On The Screen. That's Something That's Consistently Happening And It Makes These Movies Like Video Games And That's A Soulless Enterprise. It's All Kinetics Without Emotion.

I Think What A Lot Of Action Movies Lose These Days, Especially The Ones That Deal With Fantasy, Is You Stop Caring At Some Point Because You've Lost Human Scale.