The films you're making have to be faithful to the material.

The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.

The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.

We tell the stories that we want to tell.

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.

Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew exactly who we were.

The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference.

Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent.

When we care, we share.

doctors & druggists wash each other's hands

Our greatest threats never come from strangers but those closer to us”.

When men have a smile on their faces, that does a lot for me.

Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.