I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

Movies become living organisms that graduate from a filmmaker's sphere of influence and pretty much look back and tell you how they need to be said goodbye to. A movie often turns around and looks at you and says, "Here is who I am, and that's maybe now how you see me, but that's who I've become." And you've got to be open enough to go with that.

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

The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.

The age doesn't really matter to me as it seems to matter to other people. A lot of people think that youth or age is the total sum of your knowledge about anything, and it's absolutely untrue. I think I might have even known more five years ago than I do now.