Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.