If my whole game depends on whether you can guess the ending or not, I'm done, forget it.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

I like projects that are entertaining, where I'm emotionally engaged and there's something to think about afterwards.

The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something.

The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.

Love is the way to happiness.

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

Yeah, I'm obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I'm rude. You know why? Because you're busy.

It hurts because it mattered.

Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

He pinched the name tag and ran his fingers under the letters. "Can you read this, mate? It says C-H-A-R-O-N. Say it with me: CARE-ON." "Charon." "Amazing! Now: Mr. Charon." "Mr. Charon." "Well done.

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.