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

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

I think all directors should be animators.

In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of mystery, of humour and contradictions. It was a gift to us, and now it's a legacy.

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.