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Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.
What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
You think that it must be great to be Superman but it's also hard to be Superman, especially when growing up.
We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.
Apart from 'Stoned,' I can't think of a film that's made me think, 'Blimey, that should have been at Cannes.'
Shah Rukh has definitely been my inspiration. He is extremely focused in his work and is extremely ambitious.
I had no patience for films. It was only after I met Shah Rukh that I learnt to enjoy his passion for cinema.
I'm sure the next time Piers Morgan asks me to host his show again I will ask President Obama to be my guest.
The scares are the easier part of scary movies. The hard part of scary movies is what leads up to the scares.
I can do anything - but that doesn't mean I should do that. I need to enjoy what I do. I enjoy making movies.
When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is.
It's financially advantageous to make a picture in Berlin, Germany. They have a very effective rebate system.
I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.
In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.
Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.
I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.
My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.
Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.
Have you ever noticed that good people sleep better, but bad people seem to have more fun when they're awake?
When you work from city to city or country to country, you work the same way; the working method is the same.
You should not do everything in your power to make reviewers cranky before - right before they see your movie.
I think that when you're doing an under-four-million-dollar movie, you just can't throw money at the problems.
I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.
I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.
I'm not interested in making horror-comedies, but I'm very interested in making scary movies with funny parts.
American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it.
Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen.
I've made a lot of stupid action films in my life but I like stupid action films and am kind of proud of them.
I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.
And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.
Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.
Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'
You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.
I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.
I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening.
I can't understand why more people aren't bisexual. It would double your chances for a date on Saturday night.
No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.
I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life
It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.
At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey.
I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.
If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.
I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.
It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.
Tribeca has always celebrated the most exciting new forms of storytelling, from video games to virtual reality.