I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.
My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.
I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.
I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.
In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.
He never gave up. And he does that for us
Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.