I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.

It always happens at the end that you're always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.

I'm not the one or two take guy, but I'm not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it's usually for some technical reasons.

The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.

A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.

One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.

I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.