I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.