A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.

When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you.

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.

We always had the idea that there might be two slightly different versions of the same thing.

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.

I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

You can almost take the book and use it as a script.

You are only great to the degree you impacted others with your life.

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.

He is rich who owes nothing.

If you are lonely, you feel separated from everybody. If you are in solitude, you feel you are in contact with the entire universe.

Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

This European and really pro-Russian nationalism is seeping into America. It's very disturbing.

I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.