The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

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.

My dad took me to my first movie.

I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.

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.

The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.