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

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

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.

Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.