The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.

Don't you get it? It's the end of the world! That's exactly when you fall in love. When else?

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

Modern responses to Cinderella's predicament are interesting. If you're not careful, you'll think, "Well, she's just a big wimp. She should fight for her rights. She should call the government."

I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.

I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.

When you move something, you discover new meanings in it, Kristina thought, watching them.

While chasing the moon that was about to set, she missed the sunrise.

I think that if you're just a good person, you work hard, you say "yes," and you are driven, you will eventually work your way to the top. At least that's how it's been for me.

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it.

No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy.

I love her (Lucifer), with all my heart. She said that she would give me greatness, status, placement above the others.

Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.

Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.