David Koepp

That is the word of the day.

How does that feel to you?

Well, with human beings, eyes are the mirrors of the soul.

And to animals, I guess, eyes are the mirrors of the appetite.

But they both serve a similar purpose.

They both give a kind of satiation.

And I think everything is in the eyes.

It's in the eyes.

It's from anything, any movie experience anybody's ever had.

It's all about the eyes.

E.T.

's eyes in my film was critically important.

The design of those eyes were critically important.

It's a little bit harder with what people report when they report

non-human entities, there's no iris or pupil.

I never thought about that.

They're never drawn with anything inside the eye.

No, but there are other things happening when people have close encounters of the third kind, which is how that sort of defines itself, that there is something that is also a psychic process.

part of looking into an eye of a non-human, as has been reported, and still feeling something without needing the pupil or the iris.

You need the context.