If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot.

The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell.

It's great to be recognized for work, and the work is great, but once you have the awards, it becomes less important. It just gives you the ability to do better work, in my opinion.

Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.

There are films that are difficult. There are films that would actually affect your personal life because of the length of the production, how long [you're away] from the family.

I had very little involvement with 'TinTin'. Very little involvement. So I can't really elaborate on that either.

["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because the lens shapes the people, as we know.

It would be horrible to be micro-managed! I don't think directors can really micro-manage people. It's just impossible.

[I] love 'Munich', man. That's a very underappreciated film.

Really fantastic film, 'Munich'. So yeah, if I would say, what's the most underappreciated film, I think 'Munich' would be the one.

I just directed another picture called 'American Dream' with Nick Stahl. Just finished shooting principal photography right before I started ['Lincoln'].

Love is the process of melting into the other

Her sadness makes her impossibly beautiful, like snow blanketing a barren landscape.

If you like easygoing monogamous men stay away from billionaires.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

It's about stepping up on the big stage. The athlete who can do that is goig to do well.

I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector.

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

A warrior...must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

I aint sayin I'm requestin anyone that's perfect but I just need a woman that'll make it all worth it.

It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.