I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

3D is not a fire and forget tool. It takes a lot of very careful consideration and it will change your approach to where you put the camera so 3D isn't for everybody.

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific.

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.