The key to the success of any producer is to have a great team around.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

I have created the life that I live... therefore I can create the life that I want.

On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

I'm really a one-man band.

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.

I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.

It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.

I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.

Losing your job releases you from the contract of giving a piece of your life daily

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

Take time to thank your body.

Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

Fear and creativity don't mix well.

We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

I've never been one to run from a challenge.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.