I directed the first "Twilight" movie. It was in my contract that I could have gone on to do the other films, but I didn't feel as connected to the other books.

You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world." You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.

I thought, "If I can make you feel what it's like for that first super-passionate love, other people might like that too," and, of course, they did.

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape.

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.

Man only has eyes to beauty when it costs them the inevitability of losing.

The main benefit of innovation for your organization is not competitive advantage. It is survival.

I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.

Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

Fighting a cold, but I'm powering through. As they say, there's nothing better for a cold than doing interviews all day.

Kind words are the music of the world.

The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.

Cause for a moment a band of theives in ripped up jeans got to rule the world!