I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.

I always had the ability to throw a frisbee pretty well. I don't why.

I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

I think once every person on the planet sees 'New Moon' and there's nobody left who hasn't see it, then I think they'll be able to go see 'Ninja.'

When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.

There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.

My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.

There are a lot of times where actors can be a little precious sometimes, and then it's difficult to put them in a situation where there is true hardship.

A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.

A mind that searches for answers to big questions is a mind that will discover incredible things.

Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.

...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.

I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it's that 290 or so pages in between that are tough!

The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.