All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.

The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.

I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.

We tell the stories that we want to tell.

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

The films you're making have to be faithful to the material.

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

Respect the wounds which you gave like thatKeep them in Heart for forever and never treated

And yet the night was still fresh: young as new dawn.There was still time for worlds to change, if that was to be their fate.

If I don't have friends then I ain't nothing.

The more I look back on my life, the more I see miracles.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing.

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.

A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.