Confidence is preparation in action.

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.

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.

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.

Our soul is an instrument of music if we choose to play it with love!

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy just independently lazy I suppose.

Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.

If people knew where the sounds in Jurassic Park came from, it'd be rated R!

Failure is a disappointment, but not defeat.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die.

Fang, I think you better stop or Talon might turn you into a wolf kabob. (Vane)

The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.