My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors.

I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things we wanted to make sure was that it grew out of.

I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very black and white. This is all about the gray areas; it's really about the nature.

That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.

Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.

You should have died when I killed you.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

If you’re not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation.

Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.