I'm too old to be forced.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.

Never underestimate the power of your sister.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

The only power that I want to use is the power of love.

Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.

It doesn't matter if you never see someone again, I told myself. There are millions of people in the world, and most of them never see each other in the first place.

Caterpillar dun' become butterfly-caterpillar die so butterfly can be. A new thing. We all must let ourselves die to be what we will be. But we cling to what we know.

The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.

Who will be my equal?

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith.

I definitely talk about stuff I watch, but it's longer-form stuff.

Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.