I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

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 don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.