I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately why I got into making movies, is because I love to play.

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.

Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.

I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.

I always wanted to do an action movie, not particularly Bond.

I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.

Some of the greatest directors never got an Oscar, like Kubrick, or Hitchcock. For me, personally, I think the body of work is more important than winning an Oscar.

You do a lot of press, but getting to talk and discuss movies with your peers is the best and most fulfilling part.

Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there.

I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

Then forget Gabriel. Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it.

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.

I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.

Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.

The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.