The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

Orange is an underrated color, it's the second most underrated color after yellow.

Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.

In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.

I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

Empathy--the ability to identify with someone else's suffering--is certainly a prerequisite for a genuine apology.

The higher the hair, the closer to god.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining feet.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

In the rest of the world though, particularly in Europe, the most popular form of racing is not stock cars. It's not NASCAR. It doesn't look anything like NASCAR. It's Formula 1.

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.