Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.

If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.

It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.