I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

No time is wasted time

All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.

A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.