The challenge I think at first consideration is always a mixture of the creative opportunity and the finances. From the studio perspective, that's what they're looking to balance.

We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it.

Ultimately as much as the film industry is a business, it's a democracy. And the audience votes on how they feel based on the way they spend their money for tickets.

I really think the key to any movie is that you tell the story kind of in a fulsome way, with depth, with skill, and you will find your audience.

When you're making any movie, you have your hopes and expectations - but reality doesn't always conform with your hopes and expectations.

One of the hardest things for me as an exec was always, particularly as you progress further in the system, is that you're pushed further away from the day to day, the mechanics of making a movie.

I think sequels are very dangerous if you assume and presume success. I think you have to plan each film as a standalone and commit yourself to that as your primary objective.

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

I wear sunglasses almost all the time outside - not because I think I'm really, really cool, but because of the rays.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.

The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.