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.

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.

I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.

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.

Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.