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.

It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.

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.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing their movie another five or six percent and they don't know really how to do it, they should care how to do it better by bringing other directors and collaborators into their lives to help teach and instruct how you really make a 3D movie because it's not just like putting a new lens on a camera and forgetting it. It takes a lot of very careful consideration. It will change your approach to where you put the cameras. So, 3D isn't for everybody.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

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.