When you're directing, you're right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional - and I'll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can.

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.

If you formulate your question properly, mathematics gives you the answer

Consider the coincidences that you do not see." - Fabian Snowstrom, A Vampire's Reckoning

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.

I do not click on random youtube videos.

People screw me over with words, so I screw them over with songs.

Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

I like wearing my dads sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.