As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?

It's always about a character that I become obsessed with and who refuses to leave me alone.

I want people to feel something in the pit of their stomach. I want my movies, especially the ending, to stay with people long after the credits have rolled.

The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project.

I want to give up every single day of my life, but I can't. I'm obsessed.

I want to give the audience what they want, but not at all costs. I want to leave them with something. I try to do that with every single movie I make.

You can listen to the secrets of lifein the silence of night, in the voice of the ocean, in the beating of your heart.Just listen with your soul.

It's time, my childrenWhen the waves rise high When the waters run deepWhen the clock strikes midnightYou'll feel the mark of Zero HourAnd you'll never be the same again

The fly lands on the swatter.The movie runs backwardsand catches fire in the projector.This species apes us wellby talking only about itself

And I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read The book written in his eyes. The way he looks at me.

As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: “Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.

I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

I'd like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time. --Percy Jackson