Having the kind of infinite loop of what a digital stream is - you can shoot for a long time without cutting - allows me to sometimes perform really exciting things.

There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.

Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

If a problem can't be solved within the frame it was conceived, the solution lies in reframing the problem.

Any time a beloved character is killed off, it affects the audience in a very powerful way, especially in a series.

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

What you think is the summit is only a step up

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.