I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

You broughtme your darkness& I loved youwith the radianttears of athousand suns.

Problems are evolutionary drivers.

Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans.

A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.

Learn to think imperially.

Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'

All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.