Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.

I knew there was something peculiar about you, " she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment." I'd always known I was strange. I never dreamed I was peculiar.

The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice by showing what's shamefully going on.

Every shot makes someone happy.

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.

I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

Always destroy what is in you.