Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems.

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.