Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as a kid. One of my daughters... →
Steven Spielberg
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer... →
You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished... →
I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people... →
My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into... →
I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.
I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.
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.
I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes... →