I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.

History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.

There is something that you have that no one else ever had ... When you watch Kirk's [Douglas] performance in anything, in anything he's ever done, you cannot take your eyes off of him. It's not possible to look away from him.

All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.

Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.