People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

He loved her in his mind

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year.

The soul has no gender.

I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

I've never been convinced that the sun would come up without me barking.

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense