don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.

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.

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got used to the idea.

What are we going to do when we get into the temple, anyway? Are we going to fight our way through the Necromancers on our

Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.

Ive been playing music since I was born.

The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.

I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.

The golf course is always in good shape. Paul Latshaw does a reasonable job.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.