Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

I'm not really interested in making money. That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal.

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

I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.

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

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

I am a very impatient director.