No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

We stand and fight for God’s truth and with the truth we will win

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

How exactly does one break the news to her husband that she's standing in a closet with the dead body of one of their dinner guests?

I don't fear fracking. I fear carbon

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.

A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.

There isn't an entrepreneur or a scientific pioneer who hasn't had failures. And if we don't rear children who are comfortable taking risks, we won't have successes.

If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.