I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.

The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.

The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

We tell the stories that we want to tell.

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

The films you're making have to be faithful to the material.

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.

A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.

I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

We the people are the change makers.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.