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And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

Traditionally, animation has been dominated by men in the past. I don't know why it attracted guys.

I always loved Kate Winslet, but after you meet her you really love her because she's a cool chick.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.

Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.

I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

PK' is a very unique story. There are no benchmarks in Hindi cinema to give you an idea about 'PK.'

I feel there are only well acted or badly acted roles and no such thing as a good actor or actress.

I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

In 2009, I went to Cannes with a short film in the Kodak emerging program at the American Pavilion.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

Audiences want to see something interesting. It doesn't matter which genre or period it belongs to.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices.

That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.

I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

I think all my films can be enjoyed. In fact, they've often surprised me with how they're received.

I personally think that all the scene that you see, love scene, is pretty real, almost 100 percent.

Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.

It's quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

Maybe something that amuses the Americans is that they are so worried about age, and I'm not at all.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

You obviously can't cast Brad [Pitt] as an everyman guy because he just brings way too much baggage.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.

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