Everything is backwards now, like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream.

I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.

I think any actor who talks in beatings-up is just talking himself up. I tend to not bring them up.

I want a movie to be satisfying for an audience. That sense of having to get it done, no matter what cost, is what I like.

Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it?

The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls.

You've always got to be smart enough to go 'Well they're going to have to bring some of their own in'. We don't want to be a monopoly where we get shoved out, it has to be symbiotic.