We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have.

My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.

I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.

I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.

At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.

I don't want to be a mind rapist!

There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

Practice what you preach and let people learn from you

She made him feel guilty at times. The problem was that she was so honest herself, almost transparent. It seemed criminal to be deceiving her.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?