The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.

If movies generically don't work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully how it was made will be the least of your concern. You'll only want to have a god time.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.