Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.

It always happens at the end that you're always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.

I'm not the one or two take guy, but I'm not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it's usually for some technical reasons.

The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Extraordinary moments often involve a sense of connection, as well as communication, with something that we intuitively know goes well beyond this plane of reality.

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

Celtic supporters want to be proud of their Club. That's all they want. It is what they deserve.

Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not like Snow. I can be another thing; I’m meant to be another thing.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.