I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in selecting the cast, hands-off to see what they do with their characters, and hands-on again to offer suggestions.

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.