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

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.

All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.