Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

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 always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine that I'm an audience member. I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. There are other types of genre films that I need to be able to direct from the audience, to be right next to you watching the picture being made.