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

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

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.

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'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 are ready to make them, we'll do that.

We tell the stories that we want to tell.

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

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

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 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.

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 organically.

I can't believe she's lived this long. God must be avoiding her.

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

Spirituality is the poetry of our experience. Science is the gauge of our reality. Together, they create the essence of our humanity.

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

All cats are gray in the dark.

Women really like the horses, more so than men.

New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.

The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?

I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.