Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?

It was incredibly cheesy set with torches [TV's Survivor] - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. And here as some guy pulling names out of a coconut, and I said, 'This is the thing that has made American mass media stop in their tracks?

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.