People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

I see some parallels between then [Lincoln's era] and now. Certainly the division of ideologies between two parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In 1865, the Democrats were the Conservatives and the Republicans were the progressives, and today it's just the opposite.

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

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

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.