And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.

Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.