If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

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.

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

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.

The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.