We tell the stories that we want to tell.

The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.

The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

The films you're making have to be faithful to the material.

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

Remember, you are the light of love in the darkness.

Maybe next time, don't bite the girl you fancy.

I design for the working girl.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be watching the girl walking slowly below. - Cradle and All

I talk kinda slow, especially for the Northeast, so it was a way to beat [would-be hecklers] to the punch.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world.

You learn to accept your own reality