A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

Confidence is preparation in action.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.

You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.

Today is such a lovely day, my heart is dancing with joy.My mind is flowing with timeand my soul is longing for your soul.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.

It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.

You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.

You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.

We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.