Every great story deserves a great ending

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that's always interested me.

Only super-efforts count.

Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

A big book is a big misfortune.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two.

Sacrificing minions: is there any problem it CAN'T solve?

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.