The 3D, it changes the way you shoot in a way, especially when you're shooting live action 3D elements.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there lies terror.

This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.

Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.

I love Hugh Jackman. Love Hugh Jackman. He's the coolest. He's one of the coolest actors I've ever worked with, and I'll do anything with him.

When you're dealing with shooting a lot of live action in 3D, you're committed to how much 3D you're giving the audience.

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

The mosquitos are so big they eat you alive wear your shoes.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

Surely revival delays because prayer decays.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

Remember all the people in your life who helped guide you on your road to success. Thank them sincerely and often.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.