We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there lies terror.

This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.

Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.

I love Hugh Jackman. Love Hugh Jackman. He's the coolest. He's one of the coolest actors I've ever worked with, and I'll do anything with him.

When you're dealing with shooting a lot of live action in 3D, you're committed to how much 3D you're giving the audience.

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

The 3D, it changes the way you shoot in a way, especially when you're shooting live action 3D elements.

MY FRIEND: SO DO YOU TAKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS?ME: SURE DO HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS.MY FRIEND: COOL WHAT LANGUAGE?ME: MATH.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

The heart is the only book worth reading.

Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.

It's not always plain sailing... especially when you're flying!

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.

We usually surprised everyone, and still do, as we keep the craziness onstage.

The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed.

I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.