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.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

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

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.