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

I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas] is the only movie star I ever met.

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.