When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.

If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.

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

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.