I don't need the audience, but sometimes it's nice to have a gauge - not so I know how I feel, but so I get what is or isn't working for moviegoers.

Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.

The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about.

I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.

I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She was so funny and so in the right place at the right time.

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.

Learning means change and change is usually difficult.

In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

Gods are fragile beings. They depend on the hospitality of those who believe in them

You can believe the diagnosis, not the prognosis.

There's a shortage in this world of I believe in you. So say love...you never know who might need it.

I don't know how to let you go/ You are so deep down in my soul.

The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war.

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.