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

You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

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.

Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

Over time I began to realize that the level of cinema criticism in the last part of XX century in the United States was pretty low. The institution itself is not what it's supposed to be, and I realized that I didn't need to take that seriously.