Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

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

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

He never gave up. And he does that for us

I like that the best about DVD: how small it is.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.