If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

Men tend to define themselves by what they do, and so if you're dealing with a character who's trying to figure that out, or multiple characters, then there's something there for guys, too.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.