Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

Movies principally require the best of everybody, all at the same time, being the best they can be. Not just like five people being the best they've ever been, and 10 people not being the best they could be. It's like if everybody is either doing their greatest work, or the whole house of cards falls apart.

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a hero is a hero. I like making pictures about people who have a personal mission in life or at least in the life of a story who start out with certain low expectations and then over achieve our highest expectations for them. That's the kind of character arc I love dabbling in as a director, as a filmmaker.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.