I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

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

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.