Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.

I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.

I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.

Relationships are now off-kilter.

I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has as much fun watching it as I am creating it.

I think you have to write what you want to watch.

As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.

I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it.

You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.

International broadcasters are often dependent on an American home broadcasting network, so it changes the game entirely.

Jesus Christ, being 2000 years old and some change, is a relatively "new" god of the older god category - and has done quite well for himself, in terms of worship.

Where do men find it in themselves to do such monstrous things?

Luck is made by the making the right choices at the right timing and place.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

My mom's Puerto Rican. That's why I'm so lively and colorful.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.

Do not seek death. Death will find you.

[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

He needs to get a hard slap of reality in the face every once in a while. He has an arrogant side.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.