As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Life is Like a Book, You cant Just read the Back, you Have to Dive in and Experience The Story within

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

I often don't like seeing how different things are made. I'm not a big fan of behind the scenes stuff.

My opinion is borne out of my childhood, my faith, my beliefs. That marriage is between one man and one woman.

The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it.