Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

We grow not through the words we read or the lessons we see, but through the love we feel & and the paths we lead.

Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

I would still invade Iraq even if Iraq never existed

We all have our strengths and our failings.

If you create the game, then you create the rules.

I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business.

It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human.

I brought in producer Johan Carlsson [Ariana Grande, One Direction, Flo Rida] and asked, "Can you make this better?" And he did.

In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.

I think that you only occasionally have to play evil because everything you're doing is.