I never wanted to be a filmmaker. I still, sometimes, think I got sidetracked by this, like this is a tangent. My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.

I'm used to working with restrictions and that's when you come up with the more creative stuff.

The films I like to watch are when they make it relatable to human audiences.

To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

I constantly remind myself that there are terrible movies out there. I try to watch them, some of them, to give myself an understanding of what not to do.

I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.

Sometimes there are really happy mistakes.

I've become more like water, I'm more relaxed and I'll say, "Okay, let's just completely change it and do it that way."

Hitler rounded up all of the vampires in Europe.

I've loved comics since I was a kid, collected them, I've always dreamed of being involved in comics.

I really love him [Jack Gleeson as Joffrey in Game of Thrones] - I love watching that character. It's quite phenomenal how people love to hate that character.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.

Vehicle emissions standards directly sparked the development and application of a wide range of automotive technologies that are now found throughout the global automobile market.

I wasn’t invited to be on staff at the Simpsons because they didn’t want any women on staff at the time.

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!

You cannot change the past but you can start now and lay the foundation for the future.