The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

There is something that you have that no one else ever had ... When you watch Kirk's [Douglas] performance in anything, in anything he's ever done, you cannot take your eyes off of him. It's not possible to look away from him.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

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

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.