The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.

I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you.

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films... I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.

Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.

Please accept this sandwich as a gesture of solidarity.

We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.

He who sling mud, lose ground.

I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.

Art is not to throw light but to be light.

I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

It felt odd to be laughing during a firefight. Then again, if you can't laugh when you're about to die, when can you?

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

Being a producer and a star of the play was a lot more challenging and difficult than I ever anticipated, but so rewarding. I got to be involved with the writing, the casting.