My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

I'm not really interested in making money. That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal.

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.

I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.

The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first ‘Jurassic Park,’ which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That’s the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.