When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.

You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

The fire is a flame.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

As we transcended and transformed from Neanderthal so will future humans transcend to a new level of consciousness and transform into a super human or homo-cosmicus.

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

I think people just love to win.

We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.