I had relatives who would go to Japan and bring back random stuff they bought at the airport or whatever - 'Ultraman' and 'Speed Racer,' stuff like that.
I wanted to be a professional motor racer. It was only due to lack of sponsors that I could not do it.
My goal is to be a racer, and I want to be someone who inspires Americans to watch Formula One.
I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.
My dad was a professional track racer. It's in my genes, and my first memories as a baby were in a velodrome.
People have seen now I am a racer, and I have big intentions in the sport, and I am prepared to get my shoulders out if I need to.
From the time I was six years old, I wanted to be a BMX Racer and be the best.
A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.
I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.
Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know.
