I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.

There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

A lot of my energy is going to Code for America, Jen Pahlka's non-profit startup. We're doing a lot of great work teaching government how to apply technology and changing the culture of government.

I have a fantastic respect for Liverpool the city, club and the fans, from the time I spent there. That respect will always be there.

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.

Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.

The American people overwhelmingly oppose taxpayer funding of abortions, and it's no different in Arizona, where we have long-standing policy against subsidizing them with public dollars.

Maybe John Kerry does not know - but I am happy to explain it to him - that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic, dramatic terrorist attack.

Religion is meant to be bread for daily use not cake for special occasions.

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.

Even in the mist of imperfection or mistakes, you can appreciate and draw close to your strengths.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

Trials are not meant to defeat you. They are meant to be defeated.

What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.

Part of the brilliance of Stieg Larsson's books is that they are so complex, so many different facets coming together.