[Spielberg] surrounds himself with great crew members who are at the top of their game and know their stuff. He motivates us by liking what we do, an….

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 t….

You can't really micro-manage. You'll never make the movie in 52 days, if you micro-manage. If you do that, you take the creativity away from people ….

I like the ending of the movie [War Horse], simply because it's such a demanding scene emotionally, and yet [the look] is all done on camera. I like ….

I do like 'Munich'.It's a really wonderful film. I mean, there's 'Schindler's List', there's 'Saving Private Ryan'. But 'Munich' - of all the other f….

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

These days, you'd probably shoot it in the daylight and manipulate it in the post. That's [how] most people would do it. [I did the same thing with] ….

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

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..

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

'Sugarland Express' was pretty amazing..

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

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

We exchanged a couple of ideas and stuff like that, but that's about it. I just think ... consulting on 'Tintin' was very interesting because you try….

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 [….

[There, in War Horse] very little CGI. What happened there - because the horse was running very close to the trench, we had a rider. So in few instan….

[ 'American Dream' ] probably will [go] somewhere in Europe. You get 3000 entries [to] Sundance, and how many movies get [screened]? So, I'm a realis….

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

'American Dream' is a small little movie made for under a million dollars. Totally independent feature..

Occasionally I do movies with other directors. I did 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' for Julian Schnabel. I did a movie with Jim Brooks ('How Do ….