The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

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 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.

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.