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

I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.