That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.

I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

I love cats. I've had cats as pets.

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

When I read a book, I like to be surprised. I don't want to read the same genre formula that I've read a hundred times before.

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn't cut out for that line of work. I mean... there's a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn't.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings dont go anywhere. They shouldnt be restless.

I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible while profit is privatized.

Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

I view music as entertainment. When I'm on stage, I don't look at that as a platform for sharing ideology. Otherwise I'd be a zealot myself. That's why, when people ask me, 'Do you think you can change the world through your music?' I say, 'I doubt it.'

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

If a man has done his best, what else is there?

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

I love Calvin Klein underwear. That's the only kind of underwear I wear.

I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.