The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to play so much.

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

The advantages of a virtual production pipeline are that you can reduce the footprint of your production down to the size of the stage.

The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

I never feel like I'm the guy that's got all the answers.

I love the interplay with other smart and creative people who have got better ideas than I do and that I can bring something to, as well.

My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to take are the ones that are most telling in the main characters.

You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback.

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.

Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.

She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wandering afar, star-led.

I hid myself in food.

What I need most of all is color, always, always.

If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.