The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

This opportunity ... allows all of us to reach out directly to open a much wider door.

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.