The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

If you can dedicate yourself to asking questions to reveal your potential, you will discover your potentials and start to fulfil your mission

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

The most effective 3D movies I have ever seen are the animated movies because they are designed.

When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times.

There really is no vacation from the world in which we live.

Life's too short not to sleep when you feel like it.

People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing.

I could have been a Vincent Young y'all know nothing about. I was on the wrong road, and it was a hard, hard time.