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.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

I've always been interested in UFOs.

Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

I see some parallels between then [Lincoln's era] and now. Certainly the division of ideologies between two parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In 1865, the Democrats were the Conservatives and the Republicans were the progressives, and today it's just the opposite.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.