I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.

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

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

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

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.