Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.

The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.

You're never done. You're not done until it's projecting in the theater.

The point is just to create a discipline for making sure that you're creating material.

We wanted to present the Headless Horseman in a new light. That's where the fun comes in, of just diving in.

When you are playing a detective, particularly as a woman, you either are going to embrace the fact that it's a man's world you are jumping into, or you're going to ignore it.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

Even if you perform with a great choreography, or a part of a great group, I believe you can’t imitate people’s aura.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs.