Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.

I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate. I can't have a little bit of drugs.

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.

Just because there are things I don't remember, doesn't mean my actions are meaningless. The whole world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

I'm definitely not non-chalant. I have to leave nonchalant at home when I'm working on something, otherwise I just don't feel like I'm committed, and I've gotta be fully committed.

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.

The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.

He said he was going to fix everything and I believed him. But I believed him before and again some. And I guess I got lost in the resentment of disbelief.

I found something! Courage--just that

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

You have to celebrate the gifts because life is so hard and I think once you realize life's gonna be hard, the good stuff really comes forward.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.