What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

We're not unique. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

Remember iron sharpens iron. People inspire people, therefore, always ensure that you read books that can easily guide you to discover strategies of making a good name.

We are the universe seeking truth.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

If men and women are to understand each other to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy and to become capable of genuine comradeship the foundation must be laid in youth.

Wealth is not his that has it but his who enjoys it.

I'd hate to say, if I wasn't running, the television networks would be doing less than half the business.

The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.