The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...

Stop your dreams from being dreams by turning them into reality.

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.

To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.

Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.