I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

I like projects that are entertaining, where I'm emotionally engaged and there's something to think about afterwards.

The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.

If my whole game depends on whether you can guess the ending or not, I'm done, forget it.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something.

The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.

Pressure is an artist

Don’t let the tide of life shift you away, move intentionally in the right direction

Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man.

Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.

They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

People are worried where additional supply will come from.