Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.

The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to go report quarterly earnings and all that stuff. The competition is so huge that it's very hard to get people to show up to see any movie in the theater, much less an original one that isn't a version of something else they saw.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.