My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.

I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.