The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.

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

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times.

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

The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.