Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first ‘Jurassic Park,’ which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That’s the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D.

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

3D is not a fire and forget tool. It takes a lot of very careful consideration and it will change your approach to where you put the camera so 3D isn't for everybody.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.