I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond.

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.

The heart cannot embrace what the mind does not accept.

Dare to be among the greatest. Even if you did not get the best, you will be above the good.

There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.

Ask me that again next month, when you're all in Dhaka and I'm in Rome, watching Chelsea playing Lazio!

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.

I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.

We are blessed with a place that is open to the universe and, despite this, supports this very thin envelope of air we call atmosphere, which holds just the right amount of oxygen for us to breathe.

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself