It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.

I'm one of those people that, when I read or get encapsulated by a world, I want to live and breathe and be there.

One of the beautiful things about the idea of living forever is what that does to your soul and how it changes you.

Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men, particularly on a boat.

Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.

Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.

I always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.

One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when I listened to fairy stories and imagined what they looked like and what those worlds were like.

That's the problem with memories: you can visit them but you can't live with them.

With 100% confident, courage and commitment, anything is possible.

You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels.

I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.

There's always a tomorrow and the hope of something new.

Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.

Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.

All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.