When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.