I'm not the one or two take guy, but I'm not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it's usually for some technical reasons.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.

It always happens at the end that you're always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.

The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

I am the waves of the ocean, and I am always in love with the floating white clouds. I sing along with the wind and dance along with your thoughts and imaginations.

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.

For me my work is always being compared to my heritage. It has been quite a challenge unto itself just to drop into my voice and develop my individuated sound.

Somewhere I just want to find someone that's going to love me forever no matter what; I want someone to show the inside of my head to. That thought keeps me going.

If you climbed one step, it means you can climb the rest.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.