Lincoln believed in the American people.

Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.

The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first ‘Jurassic Park,’ which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That’s the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D.

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

I'm very collaborative with everybody on the set.

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 dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.