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

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

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 and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.

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.

Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.

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