God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.

I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.