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

I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You're allowed to be.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.

The costume the actors wear and if they're in stylized makeup and wigs in a live-action movie let's say, in a big costume drama, even though it does give them a sense of great ambience and environment and they kind of feel like they're in a great court, or if they feel like they're in the old west, or if they feel like they're being chased by hobbits or dinosaurs, it all comes down to the actors looking each other in the eye.