Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan.'

I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.