I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since 1978. Janusz Kaminsky, my cinematographer, has made every movie with me since Schindler's List. Michael Kahn has cut every movie I've directed since 1976 when we made Close Encounters together. Rick Carter has done more than 15 of my directed films as a production designer.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.