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 have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

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

The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.