All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. But if you go to foreign films, if you go to documentaries, if you go to independent films, if you go to good films, you will become a better person because you will understand human nature better. Movies record human nature in a better way than any other art form, that's for sure.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

What we have here is a rousing boy's adventure story, adapted from stories that Edgar Rice Burroughs cranked out for early pulp magazines. They lacked the visceral appeal of his Tarzan stories, which inspired an estimated 89 movies; amazingly, this is the first John Carter movie, but it is intended to foster a franchise and will probably succeed.