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No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you’re going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.

I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, ‘What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?

Even though there’s an entertainment value to the film, I think it’s very important because you can’t really separate the impact of that political message from it. It’s rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.

It’s funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself.

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes’s will. It’s a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.