I dream for a living.

I am a very impatient director.

My dad took me to my first movie.

I've always been interested in UFOs.

Money to me is not a factor in my life.

Lincoln believed in the American people.

You can be great just by being yourself.

He never gave up. And he does that for us

I think all directors should be animators.

I'm not really interested in making money.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

You're not alone, are you? Because I'm here

Actors just need each other to act together.

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray.

I like that the best about DVD: how small it is.

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

I'm very collaborative with everybody on the set.

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.

Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.

Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home

Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

Unprotected sex just feels better in a Waffle House bathroom.

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

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

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.

I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version.

I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

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