Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

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 thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

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

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.