Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

He never gave up. And he does that for us

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.

There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan.'