I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

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

The 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 think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.