I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.

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

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.