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

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.

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.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence.

We have seen too much defeatism too much pessimism too much of a negative approach.

Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

Everything you experience in your life is invited, attracted and created by you.