Steven Spielberg

And like Michael Crichton as well, they both operate under the theory that they must make the incredible credible in order to get us to believe the characters in their stories.

So they don't allow themselves to untether weightlessly

and spinning yarns that have no relationship with our reality.

And because their reality is my reality and their reality is our reality, which is they tell terrestrial stories and they put a spin of fantasy, science fiction, science.

Jurassic Park wouldn't have worked

Unless Michael Crichton could make all of us in his novel believe that dinosaurs could come back from amber, from biting insects that bit dinosaurs 65 million years ago and can be cloned.

And it's good science.

And that's the important thing about the kind of movies that I make.

If I'm going to make a movie that is stranger than fiction, then there has to be some bedrock science to let audiences believe it's credible.

Oh, that's wonderful.

Well, listen, Declan, you have saved lives.

You found a career where you are able to bring peace and health to people who are ill.

What a wonderful thing to devote your entire life toward.

I love that.

Parenthood actually keeps me young and relevant.

Because my kids are on the first line of saying, Dad, you don't know what you're talking about.

Oh, my goodness, Dad, you don't know what that phrase means.

You've never heard that before.

Dad, have you listened to this piece of music?

What do you mean you haven't listened to this piece of music?