From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

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

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

I've always been interested in UFOs.

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

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.