If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered.

I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

My films do very well on home video.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, 'Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

We all have the right to choose our own gods, and worship them. No matter even if it is a stone, an animal or a piece of cake.

It is hard to give up what you know for what you don’t know.

If I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

If it's possible to be in a good situation replacing a legend, he's in a good situation.

Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.

I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.