I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.

There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

We've tried as hard as we can into keep the ideas intact in the hail storm that is Hollywood, so, whether he is or not, I'm personally proud of what I've been able to jam down their throats.

The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.

I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'

It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

The resources of Africa are greater than the amount of aid it can ever get. Hence, Africa needs to manage its resources prudently and efficiently to minimise its dependence on aid.

It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.

A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.

Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.

We all have to be, as consumers of information and news, we have to be a little more circumspect. And let's not take everything in that gets fed to us.

For a moment, Percy actually remembered what it was like to be happy. He had an amazing girlfriend. They could have a future together.

But separate a man from his car - that's inhuman.

There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.