When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

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.

I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .

Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.