The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

If you want it bad enough, you'll get it.

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

I learned so much about the making of Star Wars and that became a real drive for me, right from the time I was 12 or 13.

I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.

Movies, over time, as they do or don't find their audience, or they find a different audience, they change in your memory and in the eyes of those who see it.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

Failed coup has put the people in general on a long trudge to freedom while creating a situation to consolidate more power to exercise the legitimised arbitrariness of Erdoğanian democracy.

It happened to some people, that obsession with throwing their clothes off at an age when it would be best to keep them on.

I have this eerie feeling that by the time I'm 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before. It's cool but also a little creepy.

This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up

You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments.

Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.

I think my confidence has developed over the years, in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.