I think Pans Labyrinth is genius.

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making movies very collegial and a lot more fun.

Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.

I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine.

But what she feels is sometimes hard to express...Much of what is best in her is warped on the voyage from within to without.

The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to make a choice.

When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

You can Light Up the Whole World by Giving without any Expectation Back.