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 I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film.

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

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

Twenty years from now, there will still be a square screen, maybe even larger, and people will be sitting in a large, dark space, and they won't know each other unless they bring friends along.