Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

I have created the life that I live... therefore I can create the life that I want.

The key to the success of any producer is to have a great team around.

On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.

I'm really a one-man band.

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.

I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.

It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.

I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.

Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.

You are so beautiful, I could eat you, ” he said.And it was true. Her smile was as intoxicating as the wine.And he could eat her.

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

Long before "American Idol" people used to call me a diva. And I be like, "Hold on, are you calling me something else on the sly? You gonna call me a diva, call me a good diva."

Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.

Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

No matter what the circumstances of our death, we overcome the horrors of our lives and find peace at last.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.