I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.
Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don’t go outside after they’re over.
Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.
Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray.
I love Rambo but I think it’s potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.
My dad took me to my first movie.
When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn’t permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.
I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn’t often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.
The bones of the story of ‘War Horse’ is a love story. That’s what makes it universal.
I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I’m not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.
So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it’s hard, because everybody has style. You can’t help it.
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don’t ride. I observe, and I worry.
My head’s not in the clouds, but I think I’ve gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.
My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make ‘Jurassic Park.’
My dad took me to my first movie. It was ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.
The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.
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.