I have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do - I've made sequels, but it's the movies that are not sequels that I enjoy the most.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.