I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

I've been working on the margins and I was aware of this choice from the start. I buy most of what's written and produced in the Arab world and I don't much like it.

My reputation is aggressive this and aggressive that.

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.

We must not become so preoccupied looking for "major" miracles that we miss all the daily ones.

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.

Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.