I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

God wears white flannels.

Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that's a cinematic arc.

Failure is an option, fear is not.