I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.

I'm a Harry Potter fan.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

Time and pains will do anything.

There's something nice about making a night of the theater rather than sitting in front of your TV.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible!

people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.

What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.