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

The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.

The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.

I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

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.

My dad took me to my first movie.