“The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.”

“I think it would be fun to write about movies again.”

“Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.”

“I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.”

“I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.”

“My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.”

“I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.”

“I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.”

“I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.”