I always wanted to do an action movie, not particularly Bond.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately why I got into making movies, is because I love to play.

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.

Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.

I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.

I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.

I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

Some of the greatest directors never got an Oscar, like Kubrick, or Hitchcock. For me, personally, I think the body of work is more important than winning an Oscar.

You do a lot of press, but getting to talk and discuss movies with your peers is the best and most fulfilling part.

Do what other successful people are doing, that is how you can be brilliant.

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet

You're like a turd that won't flush.

It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.

Generally Canadian films are smaller. I think the market here is a tenth of the size of the States. So there's less resources to put into the films.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

Take care of each man as though he were your own brother. He is.