I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.

I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.

I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.