Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

The great teams find a way to win.

Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment.

I'm rich, freakin' rich. It's crazy.

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.