People have forgotten how to tell a story.

All of my movies are about how I wish the world would work. I've made very few movies about how the world worked. I could name them on one and a half hands, about how my movies have been very reflective of how the world was exactly. A lot of my movies are really about the way I wish the world was, and that's what this whole art form is all about. It's an interpretive art form.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.