Once scouting fully opens its doors to all who desire the same experience that so fully enriched me as a young person, I will be happy to reconsider a role on the advisory board.

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

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

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.