I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas] is the only movie star I ever met.

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.

Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.