I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest me very much.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

Life demands something else, discomfort and pain.

Hope is being confident of what we do not seen.

You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.

I don't think Enrique Pena Nieto expected [visit]. I don't think anybody expected it to be so quick, the response [like Donald Trump].

I think it was Mark Twain who said, “Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

I don't do special effects. I do characters. I do creatures.