You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

I like to write about love plus an obstacle. Not a really big obstacle; not too serious and not too funny. Just somewhere nicely in between - a combination of the two.

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

There are people who are put on this earth to do everything.

I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also less like television, which is important.

I think everybody has a little rule follower and a little rule breaker in them.

It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure.

Sometimes you go against what they say because you believe in it anyway.

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.

Don't get stubborn, flow with the go. The key is to be open to unintended success. Some companies just can't take yes for an answer.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

Our hope is that a new manager, along with roster improvements, will restore a winning culture.

None of the systems we have created are producing the outcomes that were intended. They're actually producing exactly the opposite.

Coming over from England, I was awe-struck by what Americans do at Halloween. I find it magnificent. In England, you get the occasional fancy dress party.

If you like easygoing, monogamous men, stay away from billionaires.

I've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind.