I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

I see some parallels between then [Lincoln's era] and now. Certainly the division of ideologies between two parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In 1865, the Democrats were the Conservatives and the Republicans were the progressives, and today it's just the opposite.

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.