There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of mystery, of humour and contradictions. It was a gift to us, and now it's a legacy.

A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version.