I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

I didn't wait for Luck. I tore after it with a truck.

Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.

I'm not going to lie. I would definitely steal stuff from set.

If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.

...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.

I don’t use a computer. We have too much information and it’s really impossible to filter it.

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years.

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.