You have to be producing to be able to be called a producer.

I don't have to do emails, I don't have to protect myself about anything, I don't have any chain of command. My job is just to try and give everybody the tools that they need to express themselves.

It's so dense, every single image has so many things going on.

It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with except come to the wrap party or the premiere on; it's just meaningless.

Every single frame, every single shot in the movie, has a digital effect.

It's easy to be a backseat driver. It's even easier to be a backseat driver when you're not even in the same car.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.

The only way I can stop people from stealing is also not to steal myself, and it's one of the most difficult things.

The average film has eight or ten producers on it. That is just in a world that would be unthinkable to me, because to me, to really be a producer of a film, you have to be a line producer.

Producers don't really publicize movies.

One of the great things is, you're never a producer unless you're making a movie.

The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.

Leaving yourself behind is the worst loss a person can know.

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.

He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, 'You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.'

I like going to the gym every day.

The Library is a wilderness of books.

[Bashar] Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran.

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.