If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.

Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.

I'm not a fan of Star Wars. That is not for me. That is for my nephews and nieces. I don't get it.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.

Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.

To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.

Violence is not funny.

And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

Science has given us a great lie. It is this lie that ends the current age of faith in God.

It is not necessary to be an 'Intelligent', It's wise to have the 'Internet

Yep, that pretty much describes my life: because Poseidon.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

I want to run the beach's length, because it never ends.

Forget all your learnings - just remember that NOW is the moment that never ends

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.