Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
Truth is I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie it's got to be a funny movie and it's got to make people think 'Hey I couldn't have spent my time any better.'
No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display which is the way it will stay.
Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously on what is and what is not important.
I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh volatile business and unless you can be ruthless too there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.
The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
And I'm not apolitical – I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic you can be described as 'one of the faithful' one of those people who can say 'Well look something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.
As a young man even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.