The person I enjoy working for more than anyone else is George Lucas. He’s the best boss I ever had because he’s the most talented boss I ever had.
The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.
Once scouting fully opens its doors to all who desire the same experience that so fully enriched me as a young person, I will be happy to reconsider a role on the advisory board.
I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it’s all one category because I’ve got to balance my family.
I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.
I still have pretty much the same fears I had as a kid. I’m not sure I’d want to give them up; a lot of these insecurities fuel the movies I make.
An animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it’s the natural thing to do.
I’m not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.
I’ve always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that’s always the age I feel.
I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.
My dad’s been responsible for a lot of my issues.
I’ve always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.
Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.
All I have to do is pose for a picture and I’m getting married to the person standing next to me.
I can’t describe it, what I’m feeling and what I’m thinking. This means something. This is important.
Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you’ve got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there’s no greater feeling.