[adam]

Q Did you find yourself walking the line between creating your own vision for this movie while also trying to satisfy the ardent Transformers fan base?

A Listen, I make my own movies. I don’t need anyone else telling me what to do. I wasn’t a Transformers fan before I signed on to do this movie, but I actually went to Hasbro and met with the CEO and went through the whole Transformer school, about how to fold and unfold all the robots. I figured, what the f**k [laughs]. I’ve been offered a lot of superhero movies before, but nothing really appealed to me. If I was going to make this movie, I wanted to make it real, something that could be new and different. I’ve quickly become one of the biggest authorities in the world about these toys, but I tried to make this movie for non-Transformers fans.