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 bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.