Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?

I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.

You need to understand what goal you were created for and you need to understand your destination

Most people on earth are just spending time at work, in school or in church without having anything of value to show for it.

One learns by doing, not by learning to do.

I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel.""Why not? Because I'm a woman?""No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.

If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past

Even if I'm eating healthy, I let myself indulge with french fries. That's my favorite thing. You only live once!

It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.