I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.

I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first ‘Jurassic Park,’ which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That’s the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.