It's important to listen to those around you, and ultimately you have to decide which path you're going to go down.

There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness

The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you.

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.

We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes.

Come all ye that pass by, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.

Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

All that matter is honesty, integrity, and courage to face your conviction.

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.