It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.

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.

My dad took me to my first movie.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

You can be great just by being yourself.

The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.