I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

Do not waste your life over working.

Who are you and why are you here?''I'm here to kill you.''Oh. I knew there was something about you I liked.

In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.

The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

True life is elsewhere

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

I've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.