I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

Impossible to see, the future is.

I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same.

I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

He wore his hope like a winter coat, layered over the top of all of him.

I’m not going to be like my mother. You’re maniacs. You’re mad.“Yes, ” said Kate. “I know it. And so you won’t be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?

Hannah's magic cure for every ill, " he teased. "Blueberry cake and a kitten.

Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.