I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

All of my movies are about how I wish the world would work. I've made very few movies about how the world worked. I could name them on one and a half hands, about how my movies have been very reflective of how the world was exactly. A lot of my movies are really about the way I wish the world was, and that's what this whole art form is all about. It's an interpretive art form.

If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.

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

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.