It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

I have created the life that I live... therefore I can create the life that I want.

The key to the success of any producer is to have a great team around.

On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

I'm really a one-man band.

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.

It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.

I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

Serving my generation with excellence will in turn mean my generation can lead, with excellence.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Everybody think they're famous when they get 100, 000 followers on Instagram and 5, 000 on Twitter.

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.

The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs.

I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.