Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything's not okay.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.