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

I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject.

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

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.