You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?

I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.