There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

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

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.