I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there lies terror.

This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.

Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.

I love Hugh Jackman. Love Hugh Jackman. He's the coolest. He's one of the coolest actors I've ever worked with, and I'll do anything with him.

When you're dealing with shooting a lot of live action in 3D, you're committed to how much 3D you're giving the audience.

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

The 3D, it changes the way you shoot in a way, especially when you're shooting live action 3D elements.

Death is the final destination of every man.

I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

They say reach for the stars and you will get to the moon. I say reach for yourself and you will get to the stars.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.