I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek

I like to play with things a while before annihilation.

I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

Filming is repetition and many takes

Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.