I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does

If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.

Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

I was always busy doing something, being an only child.

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.

Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

When you’re truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.