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

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.