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 think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

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

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.