What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

The goodness you receive from God is a treasure for you to share with others.

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.