When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.

When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. But if you go to foreign films, if you go to documentaries, if you go to independent films, if you go to good films, you will become a better person because you will understand human nature better. Movies record human nature in a better way than any other art form, that's for sure.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?