I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

The product you produced is the evidence of the value in your life

I'm looking for some kind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy..

This is why magic is dangerous. It lures you in. It makes you curious.

Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.

Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.

If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

Bad excuses are worse than none.