I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?

I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."(on Ernest Hemingway

Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.