You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.

The Hulk is like a haiku; you've got to find just the right words. I think, and I hope, we did that with The Avengers.

What you cut out becomes part of the story you tell.

Now there’s us, staking out our piece of cinematic turf (might be small but it’s ours). And the music has to fit the vision as specifically as it did for [Star Wars and The Matrix.] OUR music comes from THEIR music, this scrappled bunch. It is spare, intimate, mournful and indefatigable.

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?