The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.
There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it’s too hard to deny what is not true.
Whether in success or in failure, I’m proud of every single movie I’ve ever directed.
3D is not a fire and forget tool. It takes a lot of very careful consideration and it will change your approach to where you put the camera so 3D isn’t for everybody.
When war comes, two things happen – profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.
When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.
Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can’t imagine I’m an audience.
When I don’t have a story to tell, I’m a terror to live with.
When I don’t have a movie, I don’t take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I’m passionate about.
There’s nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring ‘Schindler’s List’ to the screen.
There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.
There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It’s bound to try a man’s soul.
Money to me is not a factor in my life.
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
Lincoln believed in the American people.
I don’t make unconventional stories; I don’t make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.
For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.
Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that’s what I think keeps me hungry.