Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.

When I was a kid, one of my hobbies was as model-maker.

I've been lucky enough in my career to have opportunities to revisit things that meant a lot to me in childhood.

'Pacific Rim,' for me, was a chance to touch on those old Toho monster movies. 'Godzilla' and 'Rodan'... and then 'Ultraman' and 'Robotech' and all those kinds of things.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'