You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.

There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

We've tried as hard as we can into keep the ideas intact in the hail storm that is Hollywood, so, whether he is or not, I'm personally proud of what I've been able to jam down their throats.

The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.

I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'

It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal.

Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.

I’ll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please!

So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.

The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me

I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours.