If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

I'd rather miss one or two games than to come back and pop it and miss four or five.

You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.