We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it.

The challenge I think at first consideration is always a mixture of the creative opportunity and the finances. From the studio perspective, that's what they're looking to balance.

Ultimately as much as the film industry is a business, it's a democracy. And the audience votes on how they feel based on the way they spend their money for tickets.

I really think the key to any movie is that you tell the story kind of in a fulsome way, with depth, with skill, and you will find your audience.

When you're making any movie, you have your hopes and expectations - but reality doesn't always conform with your hopes and expectations.

One of the hardest things for me as an exec was always, particularly as you progress further in the system, is that you're pushed further away from the day to day, the mechanics of making a movie.

I think sequels are very dangerous if you assume and presume success. I think you have to plan each film as a standalone and commit yourself to that as your primary objective.

Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

Dogs come when they're called

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.