I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it's all one category because I've got to balance my family.

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.

I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.

There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject.