So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

I'm a Star Wars fanatic.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

I'm as conservative as they come.

Music is half the film.

I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

If it's scary, it's supposed to be scary. If it's funny, it's supposed to be funny. That's all I try to do.

If you do something that's different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.