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

I like that the best about DVD: how small it is.

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

There's a lot of confusion about the political ideologies of both parties [Democrats and Republicans] have switched 180 degrees in 150 years. It just too confusing. Everybody claiming Lincoln as their own. And everybody should claim Lincoln as their own, because he represents all of us, and what he did basically provided the opportunities that all of us are enjoying today.

I don't go through a torturous intellectual process to decide what to direct. I know what I want to direct the second I read something or hear a story. I just know when it grabs me in a certain way I want to direct it. And then I spend the next four to six months trying to talk myself out of it, because directing is really hard! But it's true, I know essentially when and what I want to do next... it's an undeniable feeling I get and it's not the same feeling I get when I wind up producing something.

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.