A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version.

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

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

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.