When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.

The movies helped define how I should be as a person.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.