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

I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.

Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

I've been told that I'm a very different person on the set than I am in postproduction when the movie's over and I'm editing, in that I get so wound up in the film that I become selfless to the point where I lose too much weight.

I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing a movie - I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and Im strict about that.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.