We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.

What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.

Nothing more we can do besides that.

Besides being emotional, he's just that good where as an opposing player competing, you want to step up your game. And to add on the rivalry and all the other things that are involved, it becomes almost too intense.

If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.

I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.