Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

Beauty is seeing a flower bloom in a garden or in nature.Artificial is seeing that same flower try and grow in a vase of water.

The seed of our love will always cube within the wonder of infinite.

I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence.

The tyrant’s formula for every genocide since the beginning of time: differentiate, divide, destroy.

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

The known unseen within becomes structural in what is seen: a being functioning as a self, in person, in this world.

Bad news is just an excuse.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.