Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.