The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

I like projects that are entertaining, where I'm emotionally engaged and there's something to think about afterwards.

The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.

If my whole game depends on whether you can guess the ending or not, I'm done, forget it.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something.

The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

Stop telling God what to do with his dice.

When I was at school one would have said, 'I swear by the Bible.' But Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House.

When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead… or any other "mis"… to others, they’re obviously missing something from their lives.

Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

We do everything humanly possible, consistent with military necessity, taking many chances to avoid civilian casualties, at all costs.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.

And this is something I must accept - even if, like acid on metal, it is slowly corroding me inside.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.