I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas] is the only movie star I ever met.

You can be great just by being yourself.

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.

Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.