It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job - especially director.

The Hollywood system has its own problems. Movie making is never an easy job.

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.

Ultimately I'm making movies because of the producers and I don't want to disappoint my producer. It's always a tough balance to figure out how far I listen to them though.

Wherever I make a movie, no matter what size it is, it's always about a straightforward communication with the producer.

If I could finance my own movies, I would be doing it.

Moviemaking is a hard job and this industry is crazy. You never know what is going to happen.

Simple life is always good. Fortune should not be created on other's money.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Just because people tell you it can't be done, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be done. It just means that they can't do it.

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

It's never too late to fall in love.