Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.

All the things that live within you find their place, in character and story, once you tap into that other space that is the creative writing space.

Life, to me, is never one color. Even in the saddest moments, you can have a chuckle. And in the happiest moments, you can shed a tear.

I think hope is key, in life and in art.

Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.

It takes forever to make a film. It's a gargantuan thing of untold effort.

If you're gonna take people on a journey that deals with some pretty heavy themes, I think you best have a sense of humor, here and there.

The more personal you get, the more universal a story you end up telling.

The sins of the Fathers that are visited upon the Sons is not ignorance, but indifference to the truth.

SHEShe makes me smileDeep deep insideBefore you can see it on my faceBefore I met herShe can make me smile in my past

Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.

Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

I'm so busy right now, it's the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.

Normal people do not create art.

Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.