I like that the best about DVD: how small it is.

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a hero is a hero. I like making pictures about people who have a personal mission in life or at least in the life of a story who start out with certain low expectations and then over achieve our highest expectations for them. That's the kind of character arc I love dabbling in as a director, as a filmmaker.

There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific.

The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.