The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.

Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since 1978. Janusz Kaminsky, my cinematographer, has made every movie with me since Schindler's List. Michael Kahn has cut every movie I've directed since 1976 when we made Close Encounters together. Rick Carter has done more than 15 of my directed films as a production designer.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

Unprotected sex just feels better in a Waffle House bathroom.

I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.