The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.

Don't you get it? It's the end of the world! That's exactly when you fall in love. When else?

It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.

People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.