If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.