History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.
I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.
I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.
I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.
The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That's the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D.
My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.
My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.
I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.
'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.
When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.
