I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

I don't like putting glasses on and watching 3D. I don't mind wearing glasses, but it's the dimness of the light and the fact that you're filtering the light. Whatever 3D process is being used is a filtration of light, which means it's blocking some of the light.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.