Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.

Fury' whetted my appetite for a bigger canvas and this idea of world creation. You can do amazing things as a filmmaker if you have the proper tools, and those are time and money.

A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.