I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

• 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.
• You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change you change.
• I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.
• My dad took me to my first movie.
• You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
• Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
• Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
• It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
• If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
• 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.