You can almost take the book and use it as a script.

When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you.

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.

A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.

We always had the idea that there might be two slightly different versions of the same thing.

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.

I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

Better is the most important step to becoming your best. If you want to be your best, you need to start by getting better. Start doing better. Good, better, best. That's how it works.

But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it then life is dull without it.

Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.

Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.

(Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.

I never imagined myself doing this. Doors opened for me and I ran for it.

I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.

Awards that ignore me are losers.

Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.