What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

Imagine if you were performing at your full potential, the lives you would change - including yours. Just imagine...

The act of meditation is being spacious.

Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen. It is the same with dreams.

Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

Literature is what's left standing after the storm.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

Male philosophers coin phrases -- 'virtue is its own reward' -- and female workers embody them.