Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

You can be great just by being yourself.

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.

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.