I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.

[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.

I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.

To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

My mantra is "Better is better".

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

The pendulum wall clock ticked and the ancient refrigerator clicked on. From outside came the low mooing of a cow. Such peace, thought Emily.

The music video will die when we all go blind, and music will never die, because even when you can't hear it, you can feel it.

I would so rock at running amuck.

Kids don't see hate in their eyes. They see the world, and living in it to the best of their abilities. And that's where love comes from for me.

Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.

Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.