Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

Every movie you're going to forget that it's 3D whether it's widescreen or whatever it is, you're going to forget everything if the movie is working. If the movie doesn't work or if the movie generically doesn't work then immediately you start to pick apart whatever has contributed to that.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.