Twenty years from now, there will still be a square screen, maybe even larger, and people will be sitting in a large, dark space, and they won't know each other unless they bring friends along.

There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

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

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.