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

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.

I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Cross Country No half times no time outs no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

It is time to go on the offense. Hold people accountable for the wrongdoings they do and commit against the American people, use the vestiges of the Constitution which gives us the outline of how we hold them accountable and make the Justice Department do their job.

The cosmic believer needs the energy of the universe to survive spiritually.

Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.

I think if you have ability and talent in one way, you have it in all ways. I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

God has been good to me.

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even know what day of the week it is.

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

You have a schedule that you really have to stick to with TV and make sure that you are producing enough film for the network to edit through and air quickly.

Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.