If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.

There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan.'

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

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 older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.