That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.

Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

I can be a romantic. The way to every woman's heart is through her stomach. Food is at the core of everything.

Put on your yarmulkahHere comes HannukahSo much funnukahTo celebrate Hannukah

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men, particularly on a boat.

If I'm elected president, we will secure the border. We will triple the border patrol. We will build a wall that works and I'll get Donald Trump to pay for it.