There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

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.

Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.

'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.

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'