For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

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.

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

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.

It's a shame I'm going to be forced to commit severe testicular trauma upon that boy

Her cowardice had been re-branded as self-preservation, and she was grateful for it.

There are 2 kinds of people in the world. Those who enjoy a nice salami and those who have no souls.

I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.

We are given the potential to excel, whether we do or not is entirely up to us.

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.

Ideas are self-replenishing, like snot

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.