We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.

People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.

I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."

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.

I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.