The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.
The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.
I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
I am a very impatient director.
[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.