I was never a critic.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

He was good and then really good and then bad and then really bad, but since he was good I got lost in the thought that I could fix it.

You need to understand the inner flowing energy and the eternal truth, is revealed to you. This is the only mystery, cult, esoteric, elusive or magic of life exists in the universe.

Going to upward is hard, facing downward is harder, that's why you have to be well prepared.

It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.

And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill.

Beware of the man who has no enemies.

Chefs don't do ponytails and we shouldn't do them because I guarantee that whenever there's a discovery of hair in the food, it's guaranteed it's from the chef's ponytail.

No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.

Very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.

My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it,'