For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

I make a living with a song, and I feel honored to do something I love and believe in.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.