Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Sometimes it's better for a struggling writer to stay single, than to keep hearing, "Oh, your a writer, and you need to spend time in writing? Then go marry your writing!

The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.

It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.

We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.

I definitely did not play myself. As the writer of the script, I have traits of all the characters. I can relate to all of the characters.

The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.

I like very much to do movies.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.