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.

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.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.