I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

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.