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.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.

I don't do the running commentary as the movie's playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening to me talk while the movies playing.

Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.