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

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing a movie - I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and Im strict about that.

I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.

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