Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.

I always had the ability to throw a frisbee pretty well. I don't why.

I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

I think once every person on the planet sees 'New Moon' and there's nobody left who hasn't see it, then I think they'll be able to go see 'Ninja.'

When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.

There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.

My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.

There are a lot of times where actors can be a little precious sometimes, and then it's difficult to put them in a situation where there is true hardship.

A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.

Isn't there some truth in all fiction?" "There's some fiction in all truth too.

He liked what he had too much.

It is not age but experience that brings wisdom.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Fish recognize a bad leader.

When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates!

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.

When I was a very little boy I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.