All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.

My wife and I, we met making a movie. This is not just our job, it's our life. It's what we do naturally whether we're working together or not.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.