Technology can do amazing things for us. It's something we need to keep an eye on.

There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential. p124

So you wish me to forget that you are a sheikh and a prince and a crown prince and soon to be King? That is a lot to forget.

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

I only aim for fashion that's long dead.

I look for the hotels that have figured out the comfortable balance - a modern room that is well designed, and really clean sheets.

I am not a morning person, but I always work out - always.

In a way, I pick out the films that have a same attitude as music that I like.

I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.