I have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do - I've made sequels, but it's the movies that are not sequels that I enjoy the most.

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

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

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.