I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

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.

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.

I'm not really interested in making money.

I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.

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.

When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.