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 father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

I'm very collaborative with everybody on the set.

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.

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

I basically went into business for myself. But it never amounted to anything. I learned a lot about editing and dubbing by watching all the professionals do it, but I never got a job out of my imposition.