The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

I'm very collaborative with everybody on the set.

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

Money to me is not a factor in my life.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas] is the only movie star I ever met.