I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.