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.
I’ve always been interested in UFOs.
I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.