What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

It is not death we fear but the thought of it.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something how can you forgive others?

very funny my sarcastic friend

These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.

He [Barack Obama] just seemed very firm about the change, and that's, like, his motto.

Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men.

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.

I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.