Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.

One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

In the afterlife you don't have to worry about looking for work.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. Its about the big picture.

One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

Rationally, I was convinced that the universe without God made no sense, but that simply was not the same as believing. But I also knew that I could not argue myself, or be argued, into faith.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.

Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it's probably higher than that.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married.

When I first started making comics, I was living with a bunch of guys, old college friends. We had this deal. At the end of each day, they would ask me how far I'd gotten on my comic. And if I hadn't made my goals, they were supposed to make me feel really bad about myself. They happily obliged.

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

All sorts of factors contribute to what Facebook or Twitter present in a feed, or what Google or Bing show us in search results. Our expectation is that those intermediaries will provide open conduits to others' content and that the variables in their processes just help yield the information we find most relevant.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.

The experience that a publication creates for its audience is the very essence of that publication's brand - and without deep engagement, that publication's brand will be weak. A good publication is a convener and an arbiter - it expresses a core narrative that becomes a badge of sorts for its readership.

It's fantastic news that the Aviva Women's Tour will continue in 2016.

I'm a bit of a nomad anyway, so I find it quite easy to settle in places very quickly.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

Politics abhors a vacuum.

In Greek mythology the hero wants to be great but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And its a template that wont fit in India.

I care about making New York better.

'Ashes of Time' was my third film, and as a young director at that point, it's not very often that you have the chance to make a big martial arts film, so of course I jumped at this opportunity.

Hillary Clinton and her media machine try to dismiss, but anybody who understands anything about how email works - and this is millennials in particular, who grew up on the Internet - know that you're an idiot to keep sensitive information on a server in your house.

I'm a little bit of a germophobe - not that bad!