I do like Superman as a character, and I have followed him throughout the years.

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.

There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

We've tried as hard as we can into keep the ideas intact in the hail storm that is Hollywood, so, whether he is or not, I'm personally proud of what I've been able to jam down their throats.

The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.

I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'

It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

To work (at a job) is to sacrifice the life you have at the moment

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

The truth is, I’d give it all up to be a rock star.

In so many ways I'm just thankful for common sense. Common sense keeps you out of trouble.

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.

Rapport equals trust plus comfort.

I get all of my comedy from CNN.

I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang.