It always happens at the end that you're always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.

I'm not the one or two take guy, but I'm not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it's usually for some technical reasons.

The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

A shared life is a sacred love.

I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.

Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

To see Earth fully we already need to love it

If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time.

I've always been into working out and eating healthy. That's just who I am.

Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.

The power is neutral. It cannot be divided into positive and negative energies. Power is power.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.