The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.

I have always loved you.

I've been all over the world, and to be in Milan and see guys dressed as Jake and Elwood is amazing. They really have become a part of the culture.

I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

Directors, like actors, get typecast.

The wonder of imagination is this: It has the power to light its own fire.

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

God has enough timeless resources for all mankind.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

The opportunity of a lifetime must be grasped within the lifetime of that opportunity.

I never knew that people made a club for me!

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

I believe in dancing.

I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.