When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

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.

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.

I think all directors should be animators.

The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.