In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing their movie another five or six percent and they don't know really how to do it, they should care how to do it better by bringing other directors and collaborators into their lives to help teach and instruct how you really make a 3D movie because it's not just like putting a new lens on a camera and forgetting it. It takes a lot of very careful consideration. It will change your approach to where you put the cameras. So, 3D isn't for everybody.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.