Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do.

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

"What makes a man a man?" a friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.