I like stories that begin with characters. I like to be engaged and moved by the characters in the story. I want to be moved. I want to leave the cin….

We tell the stories that we want to tell..

In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a br….

But there's something about the simplicity of Auschwitz... there's just nothing. There's just photographs, there's a room full of limbs, a room full ….

I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people ….

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same..

The films you're making have to be faithful to the material..

I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film.….

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy..

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time..

I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids that I met many years ago. Th….

The truth is, it's very hard looking back... we look at holocaust now with such knowledge and such a sense of the horror of what it was, that it's ha….

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organic….

Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Har….

It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because hes been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And thats ver….

The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about..

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of..

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness..

I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'expe….

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel..

The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects..