The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and the media is obsessed with business and numbers and studios... but filmmakers don't think of it that way. We just go off and we tell our stories. It's the same torture that we adore, it's the same torture that our forefathers endured making movies in the golden era of Hollywood. So, from my perspective it's no different, I'm sure, from the men and women who I admire so much who made the earliest movies.

When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

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

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.