I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room... I shoot [needless footage] and then don't use later on in the process.

I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

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

I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.