'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

3D is not a fire and forget tool. It takes a lot of very careful consideration and it will change your approach to where you put the camera so 3D isn't for everybody.

People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times.

I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.