What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.

Wester. His follow-up film The Rock (1996) was an action movie set on Alcatraz Island and in the San Francisco Bay area. It starred Sean Connery Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris.

His films which include Armageddon (1998) Pearl Harbor (2001) and the Transformers film series (2007-present) have grossed over three billion dollars world-wide. He is co-chair and part-owner of the digital effects house Digital Domain. He is co-founder of commercial production house The Institute a.