I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.

I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.

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