That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.

I attended the University of Earth, and earned my P.H.D in life from the school of hardship.

No, " said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

That’s the problem with peace. Peace make you careless.

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.

Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.