I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.

If you want it bad enough, you'll get it.

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

I learned so much about the making of Star Wars and that became a real drive for me, right from the time I was 12 or 13.

I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

Movies, over time, as they do or don't find their audience, or they find a different audience, they change in your memory and in the eyes of those who see it.

Keep your focus on the things you can actually control. Choosing to center on anything else will either stop you in your tracks or significantly slow you down.

Nothing important can be taught, only learned.

I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing.

Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.

Slavery can never be abolished.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

The only unfair fight is the one you lose.

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

Anything free is worth what you pay for it.