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

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

You can be great just by being yourself.

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

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

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.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.