Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

There used to be a time when i thought of god i'd look to the power in the sky, now when i think of god i look at the power within myself.

Ladies and gentlemen, let us hear the demand of life and adhere to it. It would do us good

Being a superhero is hard work. You have to save the world. But going to school is even harder. You have to save yourself.

The society of women is the foundation of good manners.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.