Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

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 love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.