[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.

I'm very collaborative with everybody on the set.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .