You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

I like projects that are entertaining, where I'm emotionally engaged and there's something to think about afterwards.

The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.

If my whole game depends on whether you can guess the ending or not, I'm done, forget it.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something.

The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.

All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion.

If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our mindsleft behindin battle.

In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.

Remind yourself that when things don't go right, everything will be OK. And if you think that, then everything will be.

There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.

Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God.

Your communication should not be for you. Your communication should be a service vehicle to reach the other person. Talking is for the other person. Listening is for you.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.