I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?

I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.

If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.

My words fly up my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

Who can do anything after Beethoven?

For me, mood is something you have to ignore. I try to put myself in that position when I'm shooting and try to react the way I would. I try not to play funny if it doesn't call for that.

I believe that there is a future in anything that one is vitally interested in.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.