Steven Spielberg as Self

Martin Scorsese as Self

Richard Dreyfuss as Self

Francis Ford Coppola as Self

Tom Hanks as Self

J.J. Abrams as Self

Leonardo DiCaprio as Self

Cate Blanchett as Self

Drew Barrymore as Self

Daniel Craig as Self

Daniel Day-Lewis as Self

Brian De Palma as Self

Laura Dern as Self

Ralph Fiennes as Self

Dustin Hoffman as Self

Holly Hunter as Self

Jeffrey Katzenberg as Self

Ben Kingsley as Self

Kathleen Kennedy as Self

George Lucas as Self

John Williams as Self

Oprah Winfrey as Self

Robert Zemeckis as Self

Sally Field as Self

Laurie MacDonald as Self

David Koepp as Self

Jeff Goldblum as Self

Janusz Kamiński as Self

Dennis Muren as Self

Tom Stoppard as Self

Christian Bale as Self - Segment "Empire of the Sun"

Liam Neeson as Self - Segment "Schindler's List"

Tom Cruise as Self - Segment "War of the Worlds"

Harrison Ford as Self - Segment "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

Bill Butler as Self

Michael Phillips as Self

Sid Sheinberg as Self

James Brolin as Self

David Geffen as Self

Steven Bochco as Self

Vilmos Zsigmond as Self

Tony Kushner as Self

Bob Balaban as Self

Peter Coyote as Self

Melissa Mathison as Self

A. O. Scott as Self

Walter F. Parkes as Self

Michael Kahn as Self

Rick Carter as Self

Doris Kearns Goodwin as Self

Eric Bana as Self

Adam Somner as Self

Joanna Johnston as Self

Marcia Lucas as Self

Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)