There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

What if I said I wanted a friend?' The ship crouches among the fresh-cut stalks. 'Or a lover? That's how you make a person, yes? By affection and intimacy. By touches like knives in a salted bed.

If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.

But my everyday music is classic rock. It’s what I relate to the most and where my heart is.