I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

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