I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room... I shoot [needless footage] and then don't use later on in the process.

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

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.