I like projects that are entertaining, where I'm emotionally engaged and there's something to think about afterwards.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.

If my whole game depends on whether you can guess the ending or not, I'm done, forget it.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something.

The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.

I prefer the keen edge of truth to the dull comfort of lies.

Your dream will only benefit humanity when you make it tangible by living it out.

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.

It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.