If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

I’m tougher than you think. You just need to believe in me. You know, like a fairy.

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.

Politics ruins the character.

I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.

It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming.

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.