When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.

I'm not really interested in making money. That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal.

The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.

I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.

I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.