I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

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.

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.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.