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

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

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.