Get back up, shake the dust off and keep going. Keep going, because Hollywood is set up to make you fail.

Today, with computer-generated visual effects, everything is possible. So we've seen everything. If it can be imagined, it can be put on screen.

Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

There is truly no other business in the world like making movies. It's unique, it's extremely demanding and difficult, but it's also the most rewarding.

Dreams do come true. But it will involve a lot of hard work, a lot of dedication, a lot of studying.

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

I've already made several friends-for-life from the latest movies I've worked on, and I know I'll make several more in the years to come.

The original Star Wars ("A New Hope") has had the greatest impact on me of all the films I've ever watched. It's really what sparked something in me to want to make movies.

I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.

I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began.

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.

No dimensions are closed to the ones in service of the Universal Law.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart

The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.

Women are complicated...not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.

Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.