I want to make a series of movies that run together, so if any crazy lunatic wants to watch them all in a row, there will be a consistency of tone.

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.

An evil man without vices was the most dangerous of all.

The morality of a society is often dangerous and very unethical.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'

If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.

No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.