I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on it while you shoot it. I think those are lessons you learn on any film.

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.

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

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.

A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair.

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

God is best known in not knowing him.

When you don't win I think you have to evaluate everybody.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

I've been in a couple with different races like Latino, white, Middle Eastern.

I want to tell her how much she's become the center of my being. But I can't. The words won't come.