Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately why I got into making movies, is because I love to play.

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.

I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.

I always wanted to do an action movie, not particularly Bond.

I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.

I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

Some of the greatest directors never got an Oscar, like Kubrick, or Hitchcock. For me, personally, I think the body of work is more important than winning an Oscar.

You do a lot of press, but getting to talk and discuss movies with your peers is the best and most fulfilling part.

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.

There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

You know you've been in flow when time seems to have disappeared.