I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

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

I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

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.