Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.

I'm not really interested in making money. That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal.

It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.

I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a hero is a hero. I like making pictures about people who have a personal mission in life or at least in the life of a story who start out with certain low expectations and then over achieve our highest expectations for them. That's the kind of character arc I love dabbling in as a director, as a filmmaker.