I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.

I'm a private contractor now. I choose my clients, not the other way around.

Just do what you love, make yourself happy and then awesome people will gravitate towards you.

Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.