I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.

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

The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.