Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.