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

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.

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

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

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.

If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.

In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.

Cloud root beer floats and moon grilled cheeses. But their favorite food is stardust.

Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels from the library.  This book I had again and again perused with delight.

That's not a good idea.

How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?

We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.

I can't do a million things anymore like I could when I was younger.